As I've been using Elastic Beanstalk more and more, I've been finding the need to alter my .ebextensions files per-environment. I may be using different credentials files in dev and QA, using different sets of AWS credentials (and S3 buckets), or just trying to get my environment name into a script. Initially, I had Jenkins running sed commands before deploying to each environment, but eventually I realized that my Django settings files could be the source of truth for each environment. I ended up creating django-makeconf to build other configuration files that I needed.

The project is really simple -- You just pip install django-makeconf and add 'makeconf' to your INSTALLED_APPS list in your settings. This enables the manage.py makeconf command, which builds a set of configuration files based on information in your Django settings module. Simple make sure DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE is set to the configuration you want to use (or use manage.py's --settings= flag).

I've got a private repo of some shared .ebextensions files I use regularly, but I'm also planning on including some more general features, like running Celery in Elastic Beanstalk. Rather than repeat the docs here, I'll go ahead and leave this as an announcement, and possibly publish some examples in another post.