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Mount EFS in wordpress elastic beanstalk

Ebextension - AWS Elastic Beanstalk - EFS - PHP

Deploying the AWS Elastic Beanstalk in wordpress with EFS automount

Introduction

In this post, we will be using Ebextension to mount the EFS in Elastic beanstalk.

Installation and configuration

Clone the project locally to your linux machine.

Copy the ebxtenstion as .ebxtenstion in your core code and upload a same in your AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

cp -r ebxtenstion <path_to_your_application>/.ebxtenstion

Add the below Environment properties in you Elastic Beanstalk.

key value
EFS_NAME <efs_dns_name>

Flow

  1. Install nfs-utils and jq for the mounting purpose.
  2. Simple bash script to mount the efs to /mnt/efs/uploads
  3. Removing the /var/app/ondeck/wp-content/uploads directory.
  4. Link the /var/app/ondeck/wp-content/uploads to /mnt/efs/uploads