Resolve deployment timeout issues on Elastic Beanstalk #43
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Problem
Deployments to Elastic Beanstalk were failing with an inexplicable timeout issue, preventing deployments to staging and production environments.
Solution
The initial suspect was cast on the Elastic Beanstalk version due to certain filesystem mounting warnings in
eb-activity. However upgrading the EB platform did not resolve this issue as discovered by @yong-jie and @kylerwsm . Further investigation revealed that EB deployments have a deployment timeout that if exceeded, would terminate a deployment.The solution was to move the image build step out of the EB deployment pipeline into the Travis pre-deploy pipeline instead. Images would be built in Travis and pushed to the AWS Elastic Container Registry before triggering a deploy in Elastic Beanstalk. EB would only have to download the image instead of spending long periods time building it during the deployment.
Improvements
Added a section on deploying with Travis to the README.
Tests
Repeated deploys of this branch to
edge.