Unable to deploy to AWS Elastic Beanstalk using Git

Question

I'm following the Elastic Beanstalk docs (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/create_deploy_nodejs_express.html) to the letter but I'm unable to deploy either a node.js or PHP application using git.

$ eb push
Error: Failed to create the AWS Elastic Beanstalk application version
Cannot run aws.push for local repository HEAD: 

The same happens if I try to push from git

$ git aws.push
Updating the AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment phpapp-env...
Error: Failed to create the AWS Elastic Beanstalk application version

When you call eb init, the AWS tools setup a few git shortcuts. The call that is failing is...

$.git/AWSDevTools/aws.elasticbeanstalk.createapplicationversion
Error: Failed to create the AWS Elastic Beanstalk application version

The code for that python modules is...

from aws.dev_tools import *

if __name__ == "__main__":
  dev_tools = DevTools()
  dev_tools.create_application_version(None, None)

I've tried this for a brand new php and node.js projects. I'm running Python 2.7.2, Ruby 2.1.2p95 (2014-05-08 revision 45877) [x86_64-darwin12.0]. Any thoughts?

Answer 1

We experienced the same error message but different cause. The commit message for our git commit was either too long or contained special characters. Using a simpler git commit message cleared it up. Hope this helps someone!