Aws-sdk-php: Rename Elastic Beanstalk application or environment

[andy3rdworld]

Is it possible to programmatically rename an Elastic Beanstalk application or an application's environment?

To kick the tires, I tried the following exercise which returned a successful response, but it's not clear what changed when I look at AWS management console:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-sdk-php/latest/class-Aws.ElasticBeanstalk.ElasticBeanstalkClient.html#_updateApplication

 Guzzle\Service\Resource\Model\updateApplication
Updates the specified application to have the specified properties.
If a property (for example, description ) is not provided, the value remains unchanged. To clear these properties, specify an empty string.

// using Laravel PHP SDK here...
$client = AWS::get('ElasticBeanstalk');
        $result = $client->updateApplication(array(
            // ApplicationName is required
            'ApplicationName' => 'my-current-name',
            'Description' => 'my-new-name'
        ));

I understand that I've changed "description" rather than somethine like "NewApplicationName", but is there a way to do the re-naming?

[mtdowling]

Based on the API documentation of the service, I don't think there's a way to update an application name because it's used as the identifier for the operation: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/api/API_UpdateApplication.html. It doesn't look like an environment name can be changed either. You might want to ask on the AWS Elastic Beanstalk forum for a definitive answer or to file a feature request: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/forum.jspa?forumID=86

[wonjun27]

👍

[dkathan]

Best way I found was to clone the environment to a new name and remove the old one. The site URL will change however.

[christianbradley]

You can keep the old url by swapping the cnames after the clone, and before destroying the original (using eb cli):

eb swap original-environment-name -n new-environment-name