Need help with Elastic Beanstalk / git connection

Question

good afternoon, we inherited  a project involving Elastic Beanstalk connection with Github.

the git repo has a workflow  that contains code to push to AWS, but I'm not clear if Elastic Beanstalk is "reaching into" github to pull changes or if the workflow is pushing from git to AWS. i know that there is an EB widget that you can install in github so you don't use workflows anymore, but the repo was moved to a different org so I don't have past logs, and I can't see logs in AWS that tell me how it works.

So really its an EB 101, how can I tell how the git / EB connection works? where do i look to see what the flow is?

thanks

John Mott
CTO Surgepays.com

Answer

Hi John!
You might as well write a workflow.
Here's what mine looks like:
```
      - name: Generate deployment package
        run: zip -r deploy.zip . -x '*.git*'

- name: Get Last Commit Hash
        id: last_commit_hash
        run: echo "hash=$(git rev-parse HEAD)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT

- name: Deploy to EB
        uses: einaregilsson/beanstalk-deploy@v21
        timeout-minutes: 5
        with:
          aws_access_key: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
          aws_secret_key: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
          application_name: MYAPP
          environment_name: MYENV
          version_label: app-${{ steps.last_commit_hash.outputs.hash }}
          region: my-eb-region
          deployment_package: deploy.zip
```
I use the commit hash for the label but you can use tags, or whatever you like.
You can check out the `einaregilsson/beanstalk-deploy` action documentation if you need more info.

Need help with Elastic Beanstalk / git connection

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