How to use Ubuntu 14.04 on AWS Elastic Beanstalk for Python Django Application

Question

I want the development environment to work the same as the production environment. This should minimize “this works for me,” pointing a finger.

Therefore, my team chose Ubuntu 14.04 as the operating system.

We also want to deploy on AWS.

Since I used the QwikLabs example when using Elastic Beanstalk, I realized that there is no choice to choose Ubuntu 14.04.

How do I start deploying a Django application on an AWS EC2 instance running on Ubuntu 14.04?

Thanks.

Answer 1

AWS restricts operating systems that run under Elastic Beanstalk, as it is a Platform as a Service . To get full flexibility in operating systems and settings, you need to use EC2.

There are two non-optimal workarounds:

• use a Docker instance running Ubuntu
• use this sophisticated hack to run Ubuntu in EB

Answer 2

You need to set up a custom platform, and then tell Elastic Beanstalk to use this platform when creating with eb create -p YourPlatformARN .

To ensure that related documents are supported by Ubuntu through their user platform service: "... supported operating systems are Ubuntu, RHEL or Amazon Linux ..."