AWS ECS App

A scalable architecture to deploy containerized apps into AWS Elastic Container Service using CDKTF.

Highlights

• Customizable via config.ts
• Can use default VPC or creates a dedicated one
• Codepipeline automatically pushes new docker images from ECR to ECS
• Blue/Green ECS deployment
• Auto Scaling on ECS
• Optional Serverless Aurora Database
• Database password is stored in SSM parameter store and passed as environment variable to ECS
• EFS Disk is included in case files need to be shared across instances (e.g. WordPress sites)
• Folders can be be deployed automatically to EFS by uploading Zip files into S3 bucket
• Slack notifications
• Backup plan for EFS files into a separate region

Diagram

Pre Requisites

1. Terraform CLI
2. NodeJS >= 16
3. CDKTF CLI: npm install -g cdktf-cli
4. AWS CLI

Install Dependencies

npm install
npm run get

Configure AWS CLI

aws configure

Deploy

npm run deploy

Destroy

npm run destroy