Github actions && elastic benstalk deployment

Question

I have been using AWS elastic beanstalk for a while, but I still think that I do not 100% understand how the application versioning works. Recently I started using Github actions, and sometimes the deployments fail and the environment crashes, always the same error :

Error: Deployment failed: Error: Status: 400. Code: InvalidParameterValue, Message: No Application Version named 'myapp-devel-23075dfd8cf9d3ecab85f5a0a4e77bf403040a36' found.

I started an environment from scratch, and the current version in Elastic Beanstalk is this one: Running version: myapp-devel

This is the job running on github actions:

name: EB deploy to myapp

on:
  push:
   branches:
      -  'myapp-devel'
    
    jobs:
      deploy:
        runs-on: ubuntu-latest
        ## Environment variables
        env:
          AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_DEVELOP_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
          AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_DEVELOP_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
          AWS_DEFAULT_REGION: ${{ secrets.AWS_DEFAULT_REGION }}
          AWS_APPLICATION_NAME: ${{ secrets.AWS_DEVELOP_APPLICATION_4_NAME }}
          AWS_ENVIRONMENT_NAME:  ${{ secrets.AWS_DEVELOP_ENVIRONMENT_4_NAME }}
                
        steps:
          - uses: actions/checkout@v4
          - name: Install Python 3.9
            uses: actions/setup-python@v2
            with:
              python-version: 3.9
          - name: Generate deployment package
            ## create the zip
            run: zip -r  deploy-${{ github.sha }}.zip . -x '*.png' -x '.gitignore' -x '/plugins/*/webroot/build/*'  -x '*.git/*' -x '*.jpeg' -x 'build/*' -x '*.webp' -x 'config-dev-server' -x '*.JPG' -x '*/node_modules/*' -x '.env_example' -x '.htaccess' -x '/plugins/*/webroot/node_modules/*' -x 'webroot/webpack-updater/*' -x '.dockerignore' -x '.vscode' -x '*.gif' -x 'tmp/*' -x 'webroot/cypress/*' -x 'Dockerfile' -x 'docker-compose.yml' -x '*/files/*' -x 'webroot/tests/*' -x '/webroot/node_modules/*' -x '*.jpg' -x 'webroot/emails/*' 
          - name: Install EB CLI using pip
            run: |
              python -m pip install --upgrade pip
              pip install awsebcli
          - name: Upload package to S3 bucket
            run: |  
              eb init --platform 'PHP 8.2' --region  ${{ secrets.AWS_DEFAULT_REGION }} ${{ secrets.AWS_DEVELOP_APPLICATION_4_NAME }}
              aws s3 --region  ${{ secrets.AWS_DEFAULT_REGION }} cp deploy-${{ github.sha }}.zip s3://github-action/develop/
          # - name: Create new ElasticBeanstalk Application Version on region ${{ secrets.AWS_DEFAULT_REGION }}
          #   run: |
          #     aws  elasticbeanstalk create-application-version \
          #     --application-name  ${{ secrets.AWS_DEVELOP_APPLICATION_4_NAME }} \
          #     --source-bundle S3Bucket="github",S3Key="develop/deploy-${{ github.sha }}.zip" \
          #     --version-label "myapp-devel-${{ github.sha }}" \
          #     --description "commit-sha-${{ github.sha }}"
          # - name: Deploy new ElasticBeanstalk Application Version
          #   run: aws elasticbeanstalk update-environment --environment-name ${{ secrets.AWS_DEVELOP_ENVIRONMENT_4_NAME }} --version-label "myapp-devel-${{ github.sha }}"
          - name: Deploy myapp-devel to EB
            uses: einaregilsson/beanstalk-deploy@v21
            with:
              aws_access_key: ${{ secrets.AWS_DEVELOP_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
              aws_secret_key: ${{ secrets.AWS_DEVELOP_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
              application_name: ${{ secrets.AWS_DEVELOP_APPLICATION_4_NAME }}
              environment_name: ${{ secrets.AWS_DEVELOP_ENVIRONMENT_4_NAME }}
              use_existing_version_if_available: true
    
              ## every deployment will be a different application versions
              version_label: myapp-devel-${{ github.sha }}
              region:  ${{ secrets.AWS_DEFAULT_REGION }}
              deployment_package: deploy-${{ github.sha }}.zip
          - name: elastic benstalk logs
            run: | 
              eb logs

What I should add to the version_label parameter? A different hash with each deployment? I also tried to add always the same label "myapp-devel" (without the ${{ github.sha }}), but I still get the same error, that's why I do not understand what I am doing wrong.

Answer 1

I think you can debug this by:

• Checking AWS Elastic Beanstalk Console:

Log in to the AWS Management Console and navigate to Elastic Beanstalk. Go to your environment, and in the "Versions" section, verify that the application version with the specified label (myapp-devel-${{ github.sha }}) exists.

• And & or manually create the version:

Uncomment the section in your workflow that creates a new Elastic Beanstalk Application Version manually using the AWS CLI. After uncommenting, make sure to provide a unique version label for each deployment. You can use the same approach as before:

version-label: myapp-devel-${{ github.sha }}