eb-blue-green

Utilities for handling blue green deployments in elastic beanstalk environments.

Configuration

You will want some environment variables set for local use:

export AWS_PROFILE=teamgantt
export AWS_REGION=us-east-2
export NODE_ENV=development

If running in an AWS environment, you don't really need to worry about anything.

Local use assumes it will be reading profile information from ~/.aws/credentials based off the AWS_PROFILE environment variable and the AWS_REGION environment variable.

There is .envrc in the repo if you are into using direnv. Just update the values with your own profile/region.

Usage

These are mostly functions that sit on top of the aws sdk for JavaScript.

Since beanstalk environment names have to be unique for a region within an account, most of these functions operate from that starting point.

The main functions of interest are cloneEnvironment, swapUrls, and terminateEnvironment.

const eb = require('@teamgantt/eb-blue-green');

(async function() {

// clone the blue environment to a new env called "green"
await eb.cloneEnvironment('blue', 'green');

// swap the blue and green cnames - i.e direct traffic to green
const from = 'blue';
const to = 'green';
await eb.swapUrls(from, to);

// when you are done deploying and testing blue, swap things back and clean up
await eb.swapUrls(to, from);
await eb.terminateEnvironment('green');

})();