How can I find out the Elastic Beanstalk environment a given EC2 instance is running on from the CLI?

Question

I have an application deployed to Elastic Beanstalk with the Mutli-Container Docker configuration, which is backed by ECS and further backed by EC2. When I SSH onto the EC2 instance, is there some command I can run to identify the name of the EB application / environment that it's running under? Is there anything like aws elasticbeanstalk get-current-environment?

Answer 1

The EB environment name and id is present in your instance tags. You could run the AWS CLI: aws ec2 describe-tags to get the environment name. The tag keys would be:

• elasticbeanstalk:environment-id
• elasticbeanstalk:environment-name

Please note: you would need an IAM role attached to the instances with ec2:DescribeTags permission for this command to work.