How do I set my Elastic Beanstalk application to use an Application Load Balancer?

Question

I want to use websockets and SSL. Therefore I cannot use the default Elastic Beanstalk load balancer. I understand that Amazon has recently released an "Application Load Balancer" that supports websockets.

How do I configure my Elastic Beanstalk application to use this new type of load balancer?

Answer 1

Application Load Balancer can be used with Elastic Beanstalk now: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/environments-cfg-applicationloadbalancer.html

In order to used it your environment must meet the following requirements: "must be in a default or custom VPC, and must have a service role with the standard set of permissions"

However when creating an environment via AWS console I haven't managed to find how to choose Application Load Balancer instead of a classic one. It has still the same option - "Load Balancer" to choose and when checked, it creates a classic Load Balancer. The only way I did managed to create an environment with Application Load Balancer is via aws eb cli as specified in the doc above:

$ eb create test-env --elb-type application

This will create Application Load Balancer. Then you will only need to configure it according your needs.