Task Manager-2 - Laravel CRUD App

A simple task management CRUD application built with Laravel 13, deployed on AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

Requirements

• AWS CLI configured with credentials
• EB CLI (pip install awsebcli)

Deploy to Elastic Beanstalk

1. Initialize the EB application

eb init -p "PHP 8.4" task-manager --region us-east-1

2. Create the environment with an RDS MySQL database

eb create task-manager-env \
  --database.engine mysql \
  --database.username admin \
  --database.password <your-db-password> \
  --envvars APP_KEY=<your-app-key>

Generate an APP_KEY locally if needed:

php artisan key:generate --show

3. Set environment variables

eb setenv \
  APP_ENV=production \
  APP_DEBUG=false \
  APP_KEY=base64:yourkey \
  LOG_CHANNEL=stderr

The RDS variables (RDS_HOSTNAME, RDS_PORT, RDS_DB_NAME, RDS_USERNAME, RDS_PASSWORD) are injected automatically when you attach an RDS instance to your environment.

4. Deploy updates

eb deploy

5. Open the app

eb open

CI/CD with GitHub Actions

Pushing to main automatically runs tests and deploys to Elastic Beanstalk.

Required GitHub Secrets

Add these in Settings > Secrets and variables > Actions:

Secret	Description
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID	IAM user access key
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY	IAM user secret key

The IAM user needs permissions for elasticbeanstalk:* and s3:* (for uploading deployment artifacts).

Workflow

1. Test -- Installs dependencies, spins up a MySQL service container, runs php artisan test
2. Deploy -- Zips the app (production deps only), deploys to EB via beanstalk-deploy

Project Structure (Beanstalk)

.ebextensions/
  01-laravel.config          # PHP settings, document root, env vars
  02-permissions.config      # storage/cache directory permissions
.github/workflows/
  deploy.yml                 # CI/CD: test + deploy on push to main
.platform/
  hooks/postdeploy/
    01_migrate.sh            # Runs migrations + caches config after deploy
  nginx/conf.d/
    elasticbeanstalk/
      laravel.conf           # Nginx rewrite rules for Laravel

Features

• Create, read, update, and delete tasks
• Task status tracking (Pending, In Progress, Completed)
• MySQL database via RDS with automatic migrations on deploy

Useful Commands

eb status          # Check environment health
eb logs            # View application logs
eb ssh             # SSH into the instance
eb terminate       # Tear down the environment