AWS extensions zipfile

[krisaoe]

The README under /aws states: "Finally, just create a zip file containing Dockerrun.aws.json, .ebextensions and extensions."

How is this zip file used? Does it need a specific name? I'm not sure how it is pulled in to the build. Can you elaborate please?

Thanks!

[spawn-guy]

zip in this case is an "Application Version" (or a source bundle) in terms of AWS ElasticBeanstalk. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/applications-sourcebundle.html this is the stuff that you need to upload to ebTalk when you deploy the app.

alternative approach (as i did) is to use aws eb-cli https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/eb-cli3.html the downside - eb-cli relies on git to deploy things. i copied the contents of aws folder somewhere outside this repo. created local git repo there, added+committed all the needed files to that git-repo and use eb deploy. the command will make a zip file from everything that is committed (yes, it will do git extract or something) and will ignore the rest of the files. and will upload and deploy this new version for you

[victorzinho]

Thanks @spawn-guy for the support! Closing the ticket since it's quite old and seems resolved. Feel free to reopen if the issue is not resolved.