AWS Elastic Load Balancer DNS Name Change and Route 53 (PHP)

Question

I'm using Elastic Beanstalk, Route 53 and the eb cli tool eb init, start, stop etc.. My Elastic Beanstalk instance is running PHP 5.4 on 64bit Amazon Linux.

I've created a hosted zone in Route 53 and added an alias to point my domain name at the Elastic Load Balancer. The load balancer that's created when I run the command eb start. I followed these instructions: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/HowToAliasRRS.html

When I make some config changes (e.g. add a keypair), stop Elastic Beanstalk eb stop and start again eb start the Load Balancer's DNS name changes and I have to manually change the alias in Route 53.

Is there a way to avoid this or automate updating the alias?

Answer 1

I've published some sample code here to let your own application do this once if fires up. The code in that project is not fully tested, but should help you get up to speed:

(And if you're using my plugin, there's a mojo do to that. this one was well-tested :])

You can call with:

$ mvn beanstalk:bind-domains -Dbeanstalk.domains=services.modafocas.org:Z3DJ4DL0DIEEJA

Thank you