I've been using the AWS console to upload a WAR file for deployment. Now I want to do it from the command line. I've been following this guide and see eb init and read the help with eb init --help and eb --help, but the only option is to create a new application.
usage: eb init <application_name> [options ...]
Initializes your directory with the EB CLI. Creates the application.
positional arguments:
application_name application name
How do I link my local source project directory to an existing application in AWS console?
I would expect a command like eb link or something, like how you can just add a Git remote with Heroku and automatically link an existing project to an existing app.
It worked after I got the AWS CLI keys for the project and ran aws configure. I had old keys in ~/.aws/ from a different project from perhaps a decade ago that used a different format. Once I got new keys, that were given permission for these particular apps, and ran aws configure and set the region, then eb init would present a menu of applications to choose from. The command aws elasticbeanstalk describe-applications has to work first before eb can work. I was expecting it would ask for a username and password, like Heroku does.
Install aws and eb command line tools:
awsclieb to your PATH, probably %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\Scripts