In order to create docker containers in Amazon Web Services Elastic Beanstalk, you need the EB CLI command to run. I didn’t find the installation of this very straightforward forward so hopefully, this helps you.

Install python

sudo apt update 
sudo apt -y upgrade
sudo apt install wget build-essential libreadline-gplv2-dev libncursesw5-dev \ libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev libbz2-dev libffi-dev zlib1g-dev
sudo apt -y install wget
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.9.1/Python-3.9.1.tgz
tar xzf Python-3.9.1.tgz
python3.9 --version

Set python symlink to run off just the python command

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python3.9 /usr/bin/python
python --version

Install pip

sudo apt-get -y install python3-pip

Install virtualenv

sudo pip install virtualenv
virtualenv --version

Install git

sudo apt-get -y install git

Create a folder and pull the eb command repo

sudo mkdir /eb-command
chown -R <ADDUSER>:<ADDUSER> /eb-command
cd eb-command
git clone https://github.com/aws/aws-elastic-beanstalk-cli-setup.git

Run EB CLI install file

python ./aws-elastic-beanstalk-cli-setup/scripts/ebcli_installer.py

A successful install will look like this

Run the bash command provided above

Test EB CLI Command

eb --help

Successful will look like this

Credits

• github.com/aws/aws-elastic-beanstalk-cli-se..
• docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest..
• linuxize.com/post/how-to-install-python-3-9..
• virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/user_guide.html
• github.com/pyenv/pyenv
• stackoverflow.com/questions/18363022/import..
• stackoverflow.com/questions/31133050/virtua..

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Now you can create apps in elastic beanstalk! I will blog creating an app soon.

Hope this helps😁

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Happy coding,

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