AWS Elastic Beanstalk .ebextensions not being called in in buildspec.yml

Question

I am having an issue where I have several .config files in my .ebextensions . And my buildspec.yml looks as such:

version: 0.2

artifacts:
    files:
      - .ebextensions/**/*
phases:
  install: 
    runtime-versions:
      php: 7.4
  build:
    commands:
    - echo Build started on `date`
    - echo installing composer..
    - composer install --no-interaction --prefer-dist
  post_build:
    commands:
      - echo Build completed on `date`
      - echo Pushing the Docker image...

In AWS CodeBuild, my pipeline keeps breaking because composer is trying to install packages like ffmpeg and libz that are specified in my .ebextensions that is never called.

My output looks as such:

[Container] 2020/05/03 12:19:49 Waiting for agent ping
[Container] 2020/05/03 12:19:51 Waiting for DOWNLOAD_SOURCE
[Container] 2020/05/03 12:20:11 Phase is DOWNLOAD_SOURCE
[Container] 2020/05/03 12:20:11 CODEBUILD_SRC_DIR=/codebuild/output/src119370068/src
[Container] 2020/05/03 12:20:11 YAML location is /codebuild/output/src119370068/src/buildspec.yml
[Container] 2020/05/03 12:20:11 No commands found for phase name: install
[Container] 2020/05/03 12:20:11 Processing environment variables
[Container] 2020/05/03 12:20:12 Selecting 'php' runtime version '7.4' based on manual selections...
[Container] 2020/05/03 12:20:12 Running command echo "Installing PHP version 7.4 ..."
Installing PHP version 7.4 ...

[Container] 2020/05/03 12:20:12 Running command phpenv global $PHP_74_VERSION
7.4.1

[Container] 2020/05/03 12:20:15 Moving to directory /codebuild/output/src119370068/src
[Container] 2020/05/03 12:20:15 Registering with agent
[Container] 2020/05/03 12:20:15 Phases found in YAML: 3
[Container] 2020/05/03 12:20:15  INSTALL: 0 commands
[Container] 2020/05/03 12:20:15  BUILD: 9 commands
[Container] 2020/05/03 12:20:15  POST_BUILD: 2 commands
[Container] 2020/05/03 12:20:15 Phase complete: DOWNLOAD_SOURCE State: SUCCEEDED
[Container] 2020/05/03 12:20:15 Phase context status code:  Message: 
[Container] 2020/05/03 12:20:15 Entering phase INSTALL
[Container] 2020/05/03 12:20:15 Phase complete: INSTALL State: SUCCEEDED
[Container] 2020/05/03 12:20:15 Phase context status code:  Message: 
[Container] 2020/05/03 12:20:15 Entering phase PRE_BUILD
[Container] 2020/05/03 12:20:15 Phase complete: PRE_BUILD State: SUCCEEDED
[Container] 2020/05/03 12:20:15 Phase context status code:  Message: 
[Container] 2020/05/03 12:20:15 Entering phase BUILD
[Container] 2020/05/03 12:20:15 Running command echo Build started on `date`
Build started on Sun May 3 12:20:15 UTC 2020

[Container] 2020/05/03 12:20:15 Running command echo installing composer..
installing composer..

It is installing composer but never installing the ebextensions . What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

CodeBuild dont understand 'ebextensions'. This directory is significant for the Elastic Beanstalk command processor only.

For CodeBuild, please run the installation commands manually in the buildspec.