ECS Application

This project generates the industry-standard infrastructure for a containerized application of any language or framework.

Installation

From your Node.js project, run:

npm install @johnedquinn/ecs-application

Configuration

Bootstrap

To bootstrap your AWS account (provide your AWS account with the necessary CDK configuration):

npx cdk bootstrap --profile <AWS_PROFILE> --cloudformation-execution-policies arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AdministratorAccess

Route 53 Domain

Prior to running this code, it's necessary to register two domains on Route 53 -- this is because it requires checking its availability, payment, etc. One will be for Beta, and one will be for Prod.

After that, you'll need to configure the A (Alias) records so you can access the site, but I'm working on creating these records on deployment. See the roadmap in the contributing file.

SSM Parameters and GitHub Connection

You'll need to set up a GitHub connection, and you'll store its ARN (along with other strings) in the AWS SSM Parameter Store. After setting up the GitHub connection, run:

aws ssm put-parameter --name GITHUB_USER --value ${YOUR_USER} --type String
aws ssm put-parameter --name GITHUB_REPO --value ${YOUR_REPO} --type String
aws ssm put-parameter --name GITHUB_CONN --value ${YOUR_CONNECTION_ARN} --type String

This project will connect to SSM to grab these strings before deploying the Pipeline.

Environment Variables

To configure to your own needs, you can specify some environment variables -- namely:

• APP_INFRA_NAME: this project's name
• APP_NAME: the web-application name
• CDK_DEFAULT_ACCOUNT: the account to create this pipeline in
• CDK_DEFAULT_REGION: the region to create this pipeline in

Contributing

Please see the CONTRIBUTING.md file.

Build

To perform a build, there will be some necessary configuration (which I'll fill out later), but, once set up, you can run:

npm run build

Then, to make sure CloudFormation is able to be generated without issues, run:

cdk synth

To Run

Once you've verified that you can build without issues, it's time to deploy to your AWS account. Run:

cdk deploy

Great! It's as simple as that.

CDK Generated Information

The cdk.json file tells the CDK Toolkit how to execute your app.

Useful commands

• npm run build compile typescript to js
• npm run watch watch for changes and compile
• npm run test perform the jest unit tests
• cdk deploy deploy this stack to your default AWS account/region
• cdk diff compare deployed stack with current state
• cdk synth emits the synthesized CloudFormation template