ingenieux Beanstalker Docs Hub

ingenieux Beanstalker is our set of Apache Maven plugins for Amazon Web Services (AWS), which lets you effectively use Maven to:

• Manage AWS Elastic Beanstalk Applications
• Integrate your build with SimpleDB, S3 and CloudFront

Getting Started

In order to effectively use beanstalker, you need to have a basic understanding of Apache Maven and AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

Basic Usage

Here are the basic beanstalker usage instructions:

• Configuring your AWS Credentials
• Configuring your pom or Using the Archetype
• Deploying your Application, using git or using s3
• Managing Versions
• Managing Environments
• Other Services Features (EC2 and Route53)

Intermediary Level

Once you've gotten the essentials, you can:

• Manage Environment Configuration
• Using AWS Elastic Beanstalk Configuration Files

Advanced

• Using Arbitrary Platforms: Thinking outside the .war
• Zero Downtime Deployments
• Using CloudFront
• Using SimpleDB

Reference

Use these as reference URLs:

• Mojo Reference
• Source Code Repository
  • GitHub Mirror
• Issue Tracking is Kept on Github
• Plugin Information (Maven Generated)
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk Developer Guide

Troubleshooting beanstalker

See the troubleshooting page and Frequently Asked Questions

Support Beanstalker

beanstalker was created to solve my problems. If you find it useful, see Donate to beanstalker

Huge Thanks Goes To

Gratitude is best served warm. I'd like to say huge thanks to:

• Andrei Pozolotin, for being the very first beanstalker user
• Alexander Bertram from BeDataDriven, for actually making me happy to know that beanstalker is used from a Humanitarial Perspective
• Yegor Bugayenko for Friendship, Numismatics, replace-environment, CloudFront, and even some competition
• Jon Marston from EnglishCentral, for feedback and catching some heisenbugs
• Keith Childers from Mentorgraphics, for general ideas, chitchat and testing
• Ofir Nachmani and the folks at Newvem, for letting me try many wild ideas with beanstalker :)

Besides that, beanstalker development is powered by OSS Licenses offered by:

• Jetbrains, for IntelliJ Idea
• JRebel

As for tools, we're huge fans of:

• Newvem, for general advice and AWS Usage Monitoring
• Papertrail, for Being Awesome on my Log Collecting
• CopperEgg, ditto, but for Server Metrics