Troubleshooting secrets integration with Elastic Beanstalk environment variables - Amazon Elastic Beanstalk
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Troubleshooting secrets integration with Elastic Beanstalk environment variables

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This section provides guidance for troubleshooting issues with secrets in your Elastic Beanstalk environment.

Event: Instance deployment failed to get one or more secrets

This message indicates that Elastic Beanstalk was not able to fetch one or more of the secrets specified during your application deployment.

  • Check that the resources specified by the ARN values in your environment variable configuration exist.

  • Confirm that your Elastic Beanstalk EC2 instance profile role has the required IAM permissions to access the resources.

  • If this event was triggered through the RestartAppServer operation, once the issue is fixed, retry the RestartAppServer call to resolve the issue.

  • If the event was triggered through an UpdateEnvironment call, retry the UpdateEnvironment operation.

For examples of these commands, see Amazon CLI examples for Elastic Beanstalk. For more information about the API actions for these operations, see the Amazon Elastic Beanstalk API Reference.

Event: Instance deployment detected one or more multiline environment values, which are not supported for this platform

Multiline variables are not supported for Amazon Linux 2 platforms, excluding Docker and ECS managed Docker platforms. For available options to proceed, see Multiline values.

Event: CreateEnvironment fails when a secret is specified

When CreateEnvironment fails and you have secrets as environment variables, you need to address the underlying issue and then use UpdateEnvironment to complete the environment setup. Do not use RestartAppServer, as it will not be sufficient to bring the environment up in this situation. For examples of these commands, see Amazon CLI examples for Elastic Beanstalk. For more information about the API actions for these operations, see the Amazon Elastic Beanstalk API Reference.