AWS Elastic Beanstalk using PHP with Private Composer Repositories

Question

How do I utilize private composer repositories when deploying with Amazon AWS Elastic Beanstalk in a PHP environment? Specifically using GitHub (Q & A style, answer foll

Answer 1

I struggled with this. I've got repos in AWS CodeCommit and was looking for the path of least resistance to solve it. I tried ~/.composer/auth.json but it appears that composer is run before I could get the file in place etc. etc.

I went for an approach which includes the vendor directory in my repo (get rid of .git folders within so that it doesn't treate them as submodules) and the whole thing then gets published to Elastic Beanstalk via zip file including that folder.