Deploying a Spring Boot app to AWS Elastic Beanstalk is relatively easy using the eb cli tool, if you’re prepared to accept some defaults as part of the deploy. It’s probably possible to configure/customize IAM roles, Security Groups etc, but accepting the defaults is an easy way to deploy during development.
To initialize a new Elastic Beanstalk deployment, run in the root of your Spring Boot source folder:
eb init
Before creating the environment and deploying your app, edit the .elasticbeanstalk/config.yml that the previous step creates, to configure the built app jar to be deployed, by adding this section:
deploy:
artifact: target/your-app-jar-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
To create a single dev/test env with no load balancing:
eb create --single
To tear down the deployed ec2 instance running your Spring Boot app:
eb terminate