Laravel & Elastic Beanstalk Guide

Did you see this;

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/php-laravel-tutorial.html

I have seen it along with some others but it is hard to find a good guide for migrating from local environment to elastic beanstalk and how to mitigate the quirks.

I have never done it, we just build our production servers manually.

We need to do something better in the future, so please keep us updated.

I haven't deployed to AWS from Forge but I can tell you that Forge makes provisioning a server easy. This blog post is old, but covers what you need.

https://mattstauffer.co/blog/getting-your-first-site-up-and-running-in-laravel-forge

and

https://mattstauffer.co/blog/laravel-forge-hosting-on-aws

Only problem I have with Forge is the scaling. I don't know if they provision servers like Elastic Beanstalk.

Probably not. You would have to setup individually but forge does provision Load Balancers and then you can connect other servers provisioned by forge to it. However, Forge is really just setup to provision servers with only a few admin type features. Everything else, like server size changes, you have to tell Forge manually after the original provision.

Your first objective is to install the eb(elasticbeanstalk) cli first. Once you have this, you can already setup the instance through the eb cli without going directly to aws system. Check this out... http://blog.mallow-tech.com/2016/03/deploying-laravel-applications-using-aws-elastic-beanstalk/