Run Django manage.py shell commands on elastic beanstalk on AL2

Question

I have my Django service up and running on AWS Elastic Beanstalk (on Amazon Linux 2). eb deploy works perfectly. But I would like to run some functions from shell of Django on by eb or maybe perform migrations on my DB.

I am unable to find my package after I eb ssh <environment-name> so cant find the manage.py file.

Related question - Run manage.py from AWS EB Linux instance

I believe it might be outdated ?

Stenotype

Answer 1

Change to the current app directory

cd /var/app/current/

Change to the staging app directory (only exists after a failed eb deploy)

cd /var/app/staging/

Activate the virtual env

source $(find /var/app/venv/*/bin/activate)

Load your environment variables

export $(sudo cat /opt/elasticbeanstalk/deployment/env | xargs)

Now you can run management commands

python manage.py shell

Stenotype

there does not seem to be any need to change to the staging directory – Extraneous

AWS post about accessing environment variables on AL2 – Extraneous

An alternative way to load the environment properties is to use get-config, for example: export $(/opt/elasticbeanstalk/bin/get-config --output YAML environment | sed -r 's/: /=/' | xargs) This does not require sudo, so it may be useful in some cases. – Extraneous

Thanks a lot! I didn't execute this command export $(sudo cat /opt/elasticbeanstalk/deployment/env | xargs) And it was taking up my local environment variables. Saved me a lot of hours – Fiddlestick

On Amazon Linux 2 it may be necessary (for example, to have permission to write to log files) to become the webapp user first: sudo su -l - webapp – Menstruation

execute this after connecting to running instance using eb ssh <environment-name>. Also have a look at this – Adrianadriana