AWS Elastic Beanstalk Adds Support for Running Multi-Container Applications on AL2 based Docker Platform

Posted on: Oct 7, 2020

You can now run multi-container applications in AWS Elastic Beanstalk using the Docker platform built on top of Amazon Linux 2 Operating System. The Elastic Beanstalk Docker on Amazon Linux 2 platform now supports docker-compose.yml format to define and run multiple containers. For more information about Docker on Amazon Linux 2 platform, see the Elastic Beanstalk developer guide.  

To get started, create a new AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment running on Docker on Amazon Linux 2 platform using the Elastic Beanstalk console, the EB CLI, or the Elastic Beanstalk API. For information on updating your existing multi-container applications to Amazon Linux 2 platforms, see Migrating to the Docker Amazon Linux 2 platform.  

Follow the public Elastic Beanstalk roadmap on GitHub to get updates on recently launched features, upcoming features, and to provide feedback on features you want us to support. You can get more information on Elastic Beanstalk at: