Allowing Composer To Access Private GitHub Repos In An Elastic Beanstalk Environment

Overview

The goal is to run composer as part of an Elastic Beanstalk instance deployment where some of the app's dependencies are private repos hosted on GitHub.

Solution

Add an environment variable to the EBS instance (through the EBS AWS console: AWS Console' > Elastic Beanstalk > Select the EBS instance > Configuration > Software > Edit > Environment Properties)

• Variable name: COMPOSER_AUTH
• Variable value: {"github-oauth":{"github.com":"XXXXXXXXXXX"}}
  Where XXXXXXXXXXX is the current GitHub personal access token used to grant this host permission to access the private GitHub repo.

Caveats

The COMPOSER_AUTH environment variable value will need to be updated after a GitHub PAT expires and is regenerated.

Notes

[[Category::Elastic Beanstalk]]