Can you deploy a non-java application with Cloudbees AWS Elastic Beanstalk deployment?

Question

This article: https://developer.cloudbees.com/bin/view/DEV/ElasticBeanstalk suggests that only java is supported. Is it possible to deploy a ruby app (for instance) instead?

Answer 1

Yes, this seems to work just fine. In our case, we preferred to do our ruby deployments to beanstalk from Jenkins rather than with the git/eb tools. We zipped up our workspace as a post-build action with a .war extension (instead of zip), archived that artifact with another post-build action, and then all the machinery was available at that point in Jenkins (at least via Cloudbees plugins) to set up an AWS Beanstalk deploy.