The Delicious Brains blog has posted the third part of their series covering the scaling of Laravel with AWS Beanstalk. In this latest article the walk through the setup of the Elastic Beanstalk application.

In my last article we set up the supporting services we would require for our Laravel app once we deploy it to the Elastic Beanstalk architecture. We created a VPC to keep our infrastructure secure, we created a MySQL database in RDS, and we set up ElastiCache for our Redis cache. So now that our Laravel app is decoupled and our supporting services are in place, it’s finally time to deploy our app to Elastic Beanstalk.

They start by talking about the Elastic Beanstalk environments and helping you get the application set up via the command line tool. Next up is the creation of the ebextensions directory and the matching YAML configurations for the EB settings. They provide an example of the contents` and explain what some of the configuration sets up. Finally they use the command line tool to issue the "create" command and build out the environment based on the configuration. The post wraps up with a bit about some configuration tweaks that could be made and optionally enabling HTTPS.