.war file is not deployed in the Elastic Beanstalk environment

Question

I'm deploying .war file with .ebextensions in EB environment using Jenkins pipeline. The deployment is succeeded and all the commands are executed in at the deployment stage, but when I check the /usr/share/tomcat8/webapps/ROOT/ I only see my .war file is there as it is, without extracting.

What would be the reason for this? and any idea about how to resolve that issue ? Please find my code snippet below.

zip -r app-${BUILD_NUMBER}.zip myapp.war .ebextensions

aws s3 cp myapp.war s3://inc-eb-deployments/inc-batch/myapp.war

Answer 1

Once the ebextesnions are setup with .war file, which is being coupled with ebextensions(.zip format). In this case, .war file should be unzipped through the .ebextension file manually. Following is the sample code snippet.

 fix_path:
    command: "unzip <app-name>.war 2>&1 > /var/log/my_last_deploy.log"

This solution worked on my environment.