Elastic Beanstalk Managed Platform Updates

01 Sign in to AWS Management Console.

02 Navigate to Elastic Beanstalk (EB) dashboard at https://console.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/.

03 Choose the EB application environment that you want to examine.

04 In the left navigation panel choose Configuration to access the environment settings.

05 Inside Web Tier section, within Managed Updates configuration box, check Managed Updates attribute status. If the configuration attribute status is set to disabled, the selected Amazon Elastic Beanstalk application environment does not receive automatic platform updates (i.e. bug fixes, software updates, new features, etc).

06 Repeat steps no. 3 – 5 to check the managed updates configuration for other Amazon EB environments provisioned in the current region.

07 Change the AWS region from the navigation bar and repeat the process for the other regions.

01 Run describe-environments command (OSX/Linux/UNIX) using custom query filters to list the names of the Elastic Beanstalk application environments available in the selected AWS region:

aws elasticbeanstalk describe-environments
  --region us-east-1
  --output table
  --query 'Environments[*].EnvironmentName'

02 The command output should return a table with the requested EB environment names:

----------------------
|DescribeEnvironments|
+--------------------+
|  CcWebAppEB-env    |
|  CcSandBoxEB-env   |
+--------------------+

03 Execute again describe-environments command (OSX/Linux/UNIX) using custom query filters to list the name of the selected Elastic Beanstalk environment application:

aws elasticbeanstalk describe-environments
  --region us-east-1
  --environment-names CcWebAppEB-env
  --query 'Environments[*].ApplicationName'

04 The command output should return the requested EB application name:

[
    "cc-web-app"
]

05 Run describe-configuration-settings command (OSX/Linux/UNIX) using the name of the EB environment and the name of the application as identifiers and custom query filters to expose the managed platform updates configuration set:

aws elasticbeanstalk describe-configuration-settings
  --region us-east-1
  --environment-name CcWebAppEB-env
  --application-name cc-web-app
  --query 'ConfigurationSettings[*].OptionSettings[?OptionName==`ManagedActionsEnabled`] | []'

06 The command output should return the requested EB automatic platform updates configuration set:

[
    {
        "OptionName": "ManagedActionsEnabled",
        "Namespace": "aws:elasticbeanstalk:managedactions",
        "Value": "false"
    }
]

07 Repeat step no. 5 and 6 to verify the automatic updates configuration for other Amazon EB application environments available in the current region.

08 Change the AWS region by updating the --region command parameter value and repeat steps no. 1 - 7 to perform the entire audit process for other regions.

01 Sign in to AWS Management Console.

02 Navigate to Elastic Beanstalk (EB) dashboard at https://console.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/.

03 Choose the EB resource that you want to reconfigure (see Audit section part I to identify the right application environment).

04 In the left navigation panel choose Configuration to access the environment settings.

05 Inside Web Tier section, within Managed Updates configuration box, click the edit configuration button to access the environment platform updates setting page.

06 On the Managed Platform Updates page, perform the following:

1. Select Enable managed updates checkbox to enable automatic updates.
2. Choose a preferred maintenance window for running updates from Window start configuration section.
3. Choose an update level from the Update level dropdown list.
4. And select Instance replacement checkbox if you want to enable weekly instance replacement.
5. Click Apply to confirm the changes and enable managed platform updates for the selected Elastic Beanstalk application environment.

07 Repeat steps no. 3 – 6 to enable automatic (managed) platform updates for other Amazon EB application environments launched in the current region.

08 Change the AWS region from the navigation bar and repeat the process for other regions.

01 Run update-environment command (OSX/Linux/UNIX) using the name of the Elastic Beanstalk environment that you want to reconfigure (see Audit section part II to identify the right EB environment) to enable managed platform updates for the selected application environment:

aws elasticbeanstalk update-environment
  --region us-east-1
  --environment-name CcWebAppEB-env
  --option-settings Namespace=aws:elasticbeanstalk:managedactions,OptionName=ManagedActionsEnabled,Value=true

02 The command output should return the update-environment command request metadata:

{
    "ApplicationName": "cc-web-app",
    "EnvironmentName": "CcWebAppEB-env",
    "VersionLabel": "Web Application",
    "Status": "Updating",
    "EnvironmentArn": "arn:aws:elasticbeanstalk:us-east-1:123456789012:environment/cc-web-app/CcWebAppEB-env",
    "PlatformArn": "arn:aws:elasticbeanstalk:us-east-1::platform/PHP 7.1 running on 64bit Amazon Linux/2.5.0",
    "SolutionStackName": "64bit Amazon Linux 2017.03 v2.5.0 running PHP 7.1",

    ...

    "AbortableOperationInProgress": true,
    "Tier": {
        "Version": "2.1",
        "Type": "Standard",
        "Name": "WebServer"
    },
    "Health": "Grey",
    "DateUpdated": "2017-10-24T10:26:35.669Z",
    "DateCreated": "2017-10-24T09:22:59.267Z"
}

03 Repeat step no. 1 and 2 to enable automatic platform updates for other AWS Elastic Beanstalk environments available in the current region.

04 Change the AWS region by updating the --region command parameter value and repeat steps no. 1 - 3 to perform the process for other regions.