Tag: Amazon ECS

Setup cross-account Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) access using Terraform and GitHub Actions

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Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is a fully managed Docker container registry that allows developers to store container images securely. It does so by storing them in an ECR repository, a logical separation for storing, organizing, and versioning the Docker images inside an ECR repository. In a typical containerized application CI/CD pipeline, the Continuous Integration … Continue reading Setup cross-account Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) access using Terraform and GitHub Actions

Blue-Green Deployments for Amazon ECS Fargate with CodeDeploy, Terraform, and GitHub Actions

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Blue-green deployment is a software release strategy that minimizes downtime and risk by running two identical environments, "blue" and "green." At any given time, one environment (e.g., blue) is live and serving traffic, while the other (green) is idle and used for staging new updates. Once the updates are tested and validated in the green … Continue reading Blue-Green Deployments for Amazon ECS Fargate with CodeDeploy, Terraform, and GitHub Actions

Protecting Credentials and Variables in AWS Fargate Containers using AWS Secrets Manager

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Credentials and sensitive variables allow access to confidential data and must be protected from unauthorized access so only permitted entities can access them. AWS Fargate is a technology that can be used with Amazon ECS to run containers. AWS Fargate is commonly used to run workloads to interact with databases or access confidential data or … Continue reading Protecting Credentials and Variables in AWS Fargate Containers using AWS Secrets Manager

Enabling Health Checks and CloudWatch Logs for AWS Fargate Tasks

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In Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), HealthCheck is a mechanism for monitoring the health status of containerized applications running in tasks. It helps ensure that only healthy containers (with health check passing) serve traffic and unhealthy containers are replaced automatically. Configuring the ECS Managed Healthcheck is crucial for maintaining the availability, reliability, and scalability of … Continue reading Enabling Health Checks and CloudWatch Logs for AWS Fargate Tasks

Continuous Deployment of Amazon ECS service using Terraform and GitHub Actions

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This note demonstrates how to host a Docker image as a container in Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). Per AWS Docs, Amazon ECS is a fully managed container orchestration service that helps you easily deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications. Deploying a service into Amazon ECS can be divided into three separate use cases: … Continue reading Continuous Deployment of Amazon ECS service using Terraform and GitHub Actions

Create infrastructure to host an Amazon ECS Service using Terraform

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This is the first part of an umbrella note in which I describe how to create and deploy an Amazon ECS service using Terraform and GitHub Actions. The cloud engineering team must provision particular AWS cloud services before hosting a container in Amazon ECS. In this note, I list all the required AWS services, their … Continue reading Create infrastructure to host an Amazon ECS Service using Terraform