Elastic Beanstalk : how to deploy only file modification without deploying all

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With AWS Beanstalk (load balancing auto-scaling mode) I can deploy my application from a git repository. But if I want to make modifications on some files, I find no solutions ... I must deploy all again.

My first question is how I can upload only some modified files without deploying all again ?

My second question is : if I manually change the permissions of a folder directly on the EC2 server created by beanstalk, this change will be replicated to other futures instances (auto-scaling created automatically by beanstalk) ?

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Possible duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/18234304/… – nu everest

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Elastic Beanstalk does not provide a way to update some files and not others. When EB does an update, it will update all the files.

You should avoid making changes directly to the EC2 instances:

  1. Changes will NOT propagate to the other instances, and
  2. If your instances are terminated and replaced (due to autoscaling and/or configuration changes), you will lose those changes.

If you want to make changes to the EC2 instances, the you should use the .ebextensions folder config files to make those changes. Please see http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/ebextensions.html for more information on that.