AWS Elastic Beanstalk Deployment Best Practices

Apply these production-tested patterns when working with Elastic Beanstalk deployments, especially with GitHub Actions and Pulumi infrastructure.

🎯 Core Principles

1. Always verify infrastructure health before deploying
2. Never assume resources are ready - implement retry logic
3. Handle terminated environments gracefully with state cleanup
4. Use concurrency control to prevent deployment conflicts
5. Pre-install dependencies for faster, more reliable deploys
6. Implement comprehensive error handling with fallbacks

🏗️ Infrastructure Health Checks

ALWAYS check infrastructure status before deploying:

- name: Check infrastructure status