Elastic Beanstalk connect to RDS from shell SSH

Question

I have a python application on an Elastic Beanstalk EC2 instance which is connected to an PostgreSQL RDS.

My application works fine and uses the environment variables th

Answer 1

Unfortunately, environment variables are not available outside of Elastic Beanstalk container.

As an alternative you can add .profile file to ec2-user home and set those environment variables there, for SSH sessions. Remember, that the file will be gone on rebuild. To make it permanent, add the profile file to your project and copy to ec2-user home with container command.