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Blue/Green Deployments with Elastic Beanstalk
Blue/Green Deployments with Elastic Beanstalk

Difficulty Level
Intermediate
Prerequisites
none
Lab Duration
45 Min
About Lab
Overview:
This lab walks you through the steps to setup Blue/Green deployments with AWS Elastic Beanstalk
What Will You Learn?
Upon completion of this lab you will be able to:
- Create an Elastic BeanStalk application.
- Create a Blue environment with a PHP application.
- Access the Blue environment’s URL and verify that the content of the URL is a PHP application page .
- Create a Green environment with Node.js application.
- Access the Green environment’s URL and verify that the content of the URL is Node.js application page.
- From the Green environment, initiate a swap of the environment URL.
- Verify that the green environment’s URL is swapped with that of blue environment.
- Access the new URL of the green environment and verify that the content of the URL is Node.js application page.
Prerequisites:
No prior experience is required for performing this lab.
Lab Steps:
1. Starting a lab
- Every AWS lab on the QwikSkills platform has a uniform user interface. You will see the below screen whenever you open up any lab.
- The blue colored “Start Lab” button will set up the temporary username and password and assign t