How can I get AWS CodeBuild's outputted zip extracted in ElasticBeanstalk?

Question

I'm trying to get AWS CodePipeline working with S3 source, CodeBuild and Elastic Beanstalk (nodejs environment)

My problem lies between CodeBuild and Beanstalk.

I have CodeBuild outputting a zip file of the final nodeJS app via the artifacts. Here is my CodeBuild buildspec.yml

version: 0.1

phases:
  install:
    commands:
      - echo Installing Node Modules...
      - npm install -g mocha
      - npm install
  post_build:
    commands:
      - echo Performing Test
      - npm test
      - zip -r app-api.zip .
artifacts:
  files:
    - app-api.zip

When I manually run CodeBuild it successfully puts the zip into S3. When I run CodePipeline it puts the zip on each Elastic Beanstalk instance in /var/app/current as app-api.zip

What I would like is for it to extract app-api.zip as /var/app/current. Just like the manual deploy via the Elastic Beanstalk console interface.

Answer 1

First, a quick explanation. CodePipeline sends whatever files you specified as artifacts to Elastic Beanstalk. In your case, you are sending app-api.zip

What you probably want to do instead, is to send all the files, but not wrap them in a ZIP.

Let's change your buildspec.yml to not create app-api.zip and instead, send the raw files to CodePipeline.

version: 0.1

phases:
  install:
    commands:
      - echo Installing Node Modules...
      - npm install -g mocha
      - npm install
  post_build:
    commands:
      - echo Performing Test
      - npm test
#     - zip -r app-api.zip . **<< Remove this line**
artifacts:
  files:
    - '**/*'
# Replace artifacts/files with the value shown above