With the development environment all set and working, it is now time to go ahead and create a production environment. Now, technically, you could repeat all the processes that we followed earlier for the development environment creation, and that would work out well indeed, but Elastic Beanstalk offers a really simple and minimalistic approach to creating new environments while using an existing one as a template. The process is call cloning, and it can be performed in a few simple clicks, using the environment dashboard itself:
- To get started, simply select the Actions tab from the environment dashboard page and select the option Clone Environment. This will bring up the New Environment page, as shown here:
- Here, ...