Deploy Spring Boot app to AWS Beanstalk

Question

What would be the best way to deploy Spring Boot project, preferable just jar, to AWS Beanstalk environment. Or should I just convert it to WAR and deploy it that way?

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Solution:

Basically what I did was this:

1. Created new class to tell Spring Boot that my app is a web app and that I need to create all necessary configs:

   public class MyBootWebApp extends SpringBootServletInitializer { 
   
   @Override
   protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(SpringApplicationBuilder application) { return
   

   application.sources(MyBootApp.class); } }

(2) inside .pom file changed packaging to war like this: <packaging>war</packaging>

That was it.

Answer 1

Easiest way to deploy Spring Boot to Beanstalk is to use the Spring Guide for converting your project to a WAR file. Then you just setup your Beanstalk application to use Tomcat and drag and drop the WAR file. AWS takes care of the rest.

EDIT: Based on what Maksim did

Step 1:

public class MyBootWebApp extends SpringBootServletInitializer {
    @Override protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(SpringApplicationBuilder application) {
        return application.sources(MyBootApp.class);
    }
}

Step 2: Change your pom.xml use <packaging>war</packaging>