Week 6 — Deploying Containers

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Required Homework
Required Homework

Provision an Elastic Container Repository (ECR) via the AWS CLI command
- Created repositories for main app and both frontend & backend apps by setting the env vars and using the AWS CLI
```
aws ecr get-login-password --region $AWS_DEFAULT_REGION | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin "$AWS_ACCOUNT_ID.dkr.ecr.$AWS_DEFAULT_REGION.amazonaws.com"
```
Create docker container images and push them to Elastic Container Repository
- Create docker images for each app and deployed them to corresponding ECRs. E.g. Backend-flask ECR with its latest image
- Cruddur-Python image
Create file to provision ECS task definitions for Fargate
- In order for task definitions to be created, task roles had to be created with Trusted entities
- Backend Task Definition file can be found here
- Frontend Task Definition file can be found here
- Task Definitions
- Tasks (Running)
Provision Fargate services for individual apps via AWS CLI command
- Backend app Service
Provision Security Groups, Target Groups & Application Load Balancer via the AWS CLI
- Created Security Groups for the ECS Service
- Created Security Group for Load Balancer
Connect to provisioned Fargate cluster via Sessions Manager
- Using the Sessions Manager plugin in the AWS CLI, connection to each of the instances provisioned from the tasks was possible