AWS elastic beanstalk deploy fails with ENOMEM error

Your AWS Elastic Beanstalk deployment fails: - Intermittent - For no real apparent reason

Step 1: Check obvious log

/var/log/eb-activity.log

  Running npm install:  /opt/elasticbeanstalk/node-install/node-v6.10.0-linux-x64/bin/npm
  Setting npm config jobs to 1
  npm config jobs set to 1
  Running npm with --production flag
  Failed to run npm install. Snapshot logs for more details.
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/opt/elasticbeanstalk/containerfiles/ebnode.py", line 695, in <module>
      main()
    File "/opt/elasticbeanstalk/containerfiles/ebnode.py", line 677, in main
      node_version_manager.run_npm_install(options.app_path)
    File "/opt/elasticbeanstalk/containerfiles/ebnode.py", line 136, in run_npm_install
      self.npm_install(bin_path, self.config_manager.get_container_config('app_staging_dir'))
    File "/opt/elasticbeanstalk/containerfiles/ebnode.py", line 180, in npm_install
      raise e
  subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['/opt/elasticbeanstalk/node-install/node-v6.10.0-linux-x64/bin/npm', '--production', 'install']' returned non-zero exit status 1 (ElasticBeanstalk::ExternalInvocationError)
caused by: + /opt/elasticbeanstalk/containerfiles/ebnode.py --action npm-install

Step 2: Google for appropriate Snapshot log file...

/var/log/nodejs/npm-debug.log

58089 verbose stack Error: spawn ENOMEM
58089 verbose stack     at exports._errnoException (util.js:1022:11)
58089 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.spawn (internal/child_process.js:313:11)
58089 verbose stack     at exports.spawn (child_process.js:380:9)
58089 verbose stack     at spawn (/opt/elasticbeanstalk/node-install/node-v6.10.0-linux-x64/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/spawn.js:21:13)
58089 verbose stack     at runCmd_ (/opt/elasticbeanstalk/node-install/node-v6.10.0-linux-x64/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/lifecycle.js:247:14)
58089 verbose stack     at /opt/elasticbeanstalk/node-install/node-v6.10.0-linux-x64/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/lifecycle.js:211:7
58089 verbose stack     at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:67:7)
58089 verbose stack     at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:98:9)
58090 verbose cwd /tmp/deployment/application
58091 error Linux 4.4.44-39.55.amzn1.x86_64
58092 error argv "/opt/elasticbeanstalk/node-install/node-v6.10.0-linux-x64/bin/node" "/opt/elasticbeanstalk/node-install/node-v6.10.0-linux-x64/bin/npm" "--production" "install"
58093 error node v6.10.0
58094 error npm  v3.10.10
58095 error code ENOMEM
58096 error errno ENOMEM
58097 error syscall spawn
58098 error spawn ENOMEM

Step 3: Obvious options...

• Use a bigger instance and it works...

• Don't fix, just try again

  • Deploy again and it works...

  • Clone the environment and it works...

  • Rebuild the environment and it works....

• Are left feeling dirty and wrong

via rmharrison