As a developer working on a web application written in Java, you aim to use AWS Elastic Beanstalk for deployment. This service handles various tasks such as deployment, capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring. Historically, you've accessed your provisioned instances via SSH to execute configuration commands manually. Presently, you seek a configuration method that can automatically apply settings without manual intervention.

Which of the following options would help achieve this?