Piotr Pasich has posted the second part of his series showing you how to set up an automated deployment process for an environment that includes an Elastic Beanstalk instance. In this part of the series be builds on the process created in part one and shows the setup and configuration of the Beanstalk instance.

In the previous part we set up a dedicated Symfony application on Docker virtual containers and prepared environments that may be transferred between developers during project cycle. The next step is to prepare the application for pushing into the cloud. There are many options available on the market – Heroku, DigitalOcean and, my favorite, AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

He walks you through the Amazon side of things first, getting the Beanstalk instance set up through the AWS control panel, selected from the AWS list of services. He goes through the options you'll need to configure to get the instance all set up and running including the resources to allocate and instance type (t1.medium is recommended). He then helps set up some of the necessary environment variables for configuration information and a bit of a hack to Symfony that lets you override local parameters with ones coming from the environment. Finally he configures the Beanstalk application and setting it up for automated deployment.