An Amazon Elastic Beanstalk configuration file for a Meteor project. This file needs to be saved in the .ebconfiguration/ directory at the root of your project. Deployed with `git aws.push`. Replace MONGO_URL with the URL to your MongoDB instance (I use MongoHQ).

configuration.yml

packages:
  yum:
    git: []

files:
  /opt/elasticbeanstalk/hooks/appdeploy/pre/51install_meteor.sh:
    mode: "000755"
    user: root
    group: root
    encoding: plain
    content: |
      #!/usr/bin/env bash
      echo !!!  Setting up METEOR dependencies
      export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
      echo !!!  Set PATH: $PATH
      ln -s /opt/elasticbeanstalk/node-install/node-v0.8.21-linux-x64/bin/node /usr/local/bin/node
      ln -s /opt/elasticbeanstalk/node-install/node-v0.8.21-linux-x64/bin/node-waf /usr/local/bin/node-waf
      ln -s /opt/elasticbeanstalk/node-install/node-v0.8.21-linux-x64/bin/npm /usr/local/bin/npm
      echo !!!  Installing Meteor
      export HOME=/home/ec2-user
      curl https://install.meteor.com | sh
      echo !!! Installing Meteorite
      npm install -g meteorite
      echo !!!  Creating app bundle
      cd /tmp/deployment/application
      mrt bundle bundle.tgz
      tar xfz bundle.tgz
      rm -rf bundle.tgz
      cd /usr/local/bin
      rm mrt npm node-waf node

container_commands:
  01_nginx_worker_processes:
    command: "sed -i 's/^\s*\(worker_processes\s*\)\d*.*$/\14;/' /tmp/deployment/config/#etc#nginx#nginx.conf"
  02_nginx_worker_rlimit:
    command: "sed -i '/^\(\(\s*\)worker_processes\s*\)\d*.*$/a worker_rlimit_nofile 8192;' /tmp/deployment/config/#etc#nginx#nginx.conf"
  03_nginx_worker_connections:
    command: "sed -i 's/^\(\s*worker_connections\s*\)\d*.*$/\14096;/' /tmp/deployment/config/#etc#nginx#nginx.conf"
  04_nginx_keepalive_timeout:
    command: "sed 's/^\(\s*keepalive_timeout\s*\)\d*.*$/\130;/' /tmp/deployment/config/#etc#nginx#nginx.conf"
  05_nginx_gzip:
    command: |
      sed '/upstream/i \
      gzip on;\
      gzip_comp_level 6;\
      gzip_vary on;\
      gzip_min_length 1000;\
      gzip_proxied any;\
      gzip_types text/plain text/html text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;\
      gzip_buffers 16 8k;\
      ' /tmp/deployment/config/#etc#nginx#conf.d#00_elastic_beanstalk_proxy.conf
  06_nginx_static:
    command: |
      sed '/\s*location\s*\/.*/i \
          location ~ ^/(images/|img/|javascript/|js/|css/|stylesheets/|font/|fonts/|flash/|media/|static/|robots.txt|humans.txt|favicon.ico) {\
              root /var/app/current/bundle/static;\
              access_log off;\
              expires max;\
          }\
          \
          location ~* \.(js|css)$ {\
              root /var/app/current/bundle/static_cacheable;\
              access_log off;\
              expires max;\
          }\
      ' /tmp/deployment/config/#etc#nginx#conf.d#00_elastic_beanstalk_proxy.conf

option_settings:
  - option_name: ROOT_URL
    value: http://pegleg.it
  - option_name: MONGO_URL
    value: mongodb://<user>:<password>@<mongo-server:port>/<db-name>
  - namespace: aws:elasticbeanstalk:container:nodejs
    option_name: NodeCommand
    value: node bundle/main.js
  - namespace: aws:elasticbeanstalk:container:nodejs
    option_name: NodeVersion
    value: 0.8.21
  - namespace: aws:elasticbeanstalk:container:nodejs
    option_name: GzipCompression
    value: true