AWS Elastic Beanstalk in a small alpine image

The Dockerfile is used to build an image with the Elastic Beanstalk (eb) command line tool.

The eb script will mount your ~/.ssh, ~/.aws, and ~/.elasticbeanstalk directories as well as the current directory into the docker container so that the tool can access your ssh keys, your configuration and the project in the current directory.

Any arguments will be passed along to be run inside the container.

Make a small wrapper and put it in your path:

~/eb

#!/bin/bash
~/path/to/awsebcli_docker/eb $@

...then you can use eb as if you had installed the cli tool directly.

DockerHub is setup to build this automatically, but you can build it locally with ./build tagging with adzdavies/awsebcli_docker

These tools broke a few times for me, with various incompatibilities. The last straw was incompatibility between aws cli and eb cli!

I wanted to have a known good version and isolate it to avoid future issues.