Deploying Cockpit CMS on AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a real pain in the backside, so I made a quick starter with Docker.

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/lewisdonovan/eb-cockpit-starter.git
   

2. Open the .env file and change the values for COCKPIT_APP_NAME and COCKPIT_SEC_KEY.

3. Initialise Elastic Beanstalk

   eb init

4. Deploy

   eb deploy

The repo provides a .env file with variables for all the settings in Cockpit config. You can uncomment and edit them to suit your needs.

The whole of cockpit-core is in the app folder, do not edit it, you can make edits in the custom folder instead. Anything you add to the custom folder will overwrite the corresponding Cockpit files when the EB container builds and the rest of the Cockpit files will remain untouched.

For example, if you create a file at custom/modules/App/views/auth/login.php, it will replace the file at /app/modules/App/views/auth/login.php in the container build.

This way you can safely make edits without overwriting the Cockpit source.

This is a working solution, but it's not actively maintained. Issues and PRs will be responded to as and when I can.

Feel free to submit a PR if you've fixed an open issue. Thank you.