Elastic beanstalk with Docker Volumes pointing to files

I have a Tomcat docker container and want to deploy my webapp on it with Elasticbeanstalk.

With plain docker I don't add my war file to the container but reference to it via the -v flag like:

docker run --rm -v data/myfile.war:/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/myFile.war

This allows me to reference directly to my war file. I have pushed my image to my docker-hub repo. Within my Dockerrun.aws.json I want to do the ref of the war file. I know there is the option to do something like:

  "Volumes": [
{
  "HostDirectory": "/data",
  "ContainerDirectory": "/data"
}]

But that leaves me with the question where is my war file on the Host directory?! My workflow is that I package these files:

• Dockerrun.aws.json


• war file

and upload them to aws. But I don't know where the zip file gets extracted on the ec2 instance. Therefore I have no idea how I should reference the volumes to. Basically I want to do something like this:

  "Volumes": [
    {
      "HostDirectory": "?/myFile.war",
      "ContainerDirectory": "/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/ROOT.war"
    }]

The ? is basically the part I don't know about

I'm using the web UI. I can upload the zip file that has the Dockerrun.aws.json and the war file. But what do I declare within the Volumes part within the Dockerrun.aws.json I don't know where aws is extracting my war file I want to do something like:

I could not find anything within the aws documentation. Anyone an idea?