Is it possible to use an S3 bucket with subfolder in the ElasticBeanstalk deploy pipe?

Question

Within the pipe for ElasticBeanstalk, we are looking to use the $S3_BUCKET variable to use different subfolders based on deployments, such as companybucket/beta, companybucket/feature, and so on.

However, when we set a subfolder within that variable, we get an error during deploy that reads:

An error occurred (InvalidParameterCombination) when calling the CreateApplicationVersion operation: Invalid S3 location Bucket: companybucket/beta Key: environment/environment-54-34034856.zip.

It is strange, as it can upload successfully to S3 in the line before this one:

Artifact uploaded successfully to s3://companybucket/beta/environment/environment-54-34034856.zip

My hunch is that the parameters are different for the S3 upload and the ElasticBeanstalk deploy.

Is there a workaround for this, or a better way we can use one bucket for multiple deployments?

Halyna Berezovska · Answer

@Douglas Kolpien try the next version of elasticbeanstalk pipe 0.8.0, we've introduced new S3_KEY variable

How this works:

S3_KEY: 'prod/my-application'

The result of this will be 'prod/my-application.zip' and this s3 key will be taken when registering application version from this s3 bucket path.

Regards, Galyna

Halyna Berezovska · Answer

@Douglas Kolpien ok, we'll discuss within a team this change, I'll notify you once we have an update for you.

Cheers, Galyna

Douglas Kolpien · Answer

Thank you for the reply @Halyna Berezovska

With our current structure, changing out APPLICATION_NAME to beta would not work.

A solution supporting true S3 location would be ideal.

We can work around this now, and keep an eye on this for future implementation.

Doug