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