AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide - Second Edition

Extending EFS to Elastic Beanstalk

Although Elastic Beanstalk takes complete care of your environment's provisioning and configuration, there are still methods which you can used to control the advanced configuration of your environment, such as integrating your application with the likes of other AWS services, such as ElastiCache, or even EFS for that matter. This can be performed using a variety of services provided by Beanstalk itself; for example, by leveraging Beanstalk's Saved configurations, or even using Environment Manifest (YML) files. But in this particular section, we will be concentrating on integrating the EFS service with our WordPress application using specialized Configuration Files called .ebextensions.

These .ebextensions ...