Amazon ECS Deployment with CloudFormation

External

• Amazon Elastic Container Service Resource Types Reference

Internal

• Amazon ECS Operations
• Amazon ECS Concepts
• CloudFormation Resource Types

Procedure

Declare a set of configuration parameters that abstract out operational details, such as project name, etc. Then declare the task definition:

Prerequisites

Parameters:
  ProjectID:
    Type: String
    Default: themyscira
    Description: |
     The key that uniquely identifies a resource consumer (service, tool that requires AWS resources, etc.).
     The project ID is used as root when assembling the names of associated resources.

AWS::ECS::TaskDefinition

Resources:
  TaskDefinition:
    Type: AWS::ECS::TaskDefinition
    Properties:
      Family: !Ref ProjectID
      RequiresCompatibilities: ['FARGATE']
      TaskRoleArn: !GetAtt TaskRole.Arn
      ExecutionRoleArn: !GetAtt TaskExecutionRole.Arn
      NetworkMode: 'awsvpc'
      Memory: '4096'
      Cpu: '2048'
      ContainerDefinitions:
      - Name: !Sub '${ProjectID}-container'
        Image: !Sub ${Image}:${Tag}
        Essential: 'true'
        Memory: '4096'
        Cpu: '2048'
        PortMappings:
        - HostPort: 10002
          ContainerPort: 10002
        Environment:
        - Name: SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE
          Value: 'something'
        LogConfiguration:
          LogDriver: "awslogs"
          Options:
            awslogs-group: 'some-group'
            awslogs-region: !Sub ${AWS::Region}
            awslogs-stream-prefix: 'some-prefix'

Dependencies

Declare the dependencies: tasks, etc.

TODO