Amazon Elastic Container Service(ECS) is a container management service provided by AWS using which you can run, stop and manage containers on a cluster. We define our containers with task definitions and run the tasks within a service.
In this blog, we will deploy a web application on ECS. The container image of the application is on the Amazon Elastic container registry.
To deploy the application on ECS follow the below steps:
Step1: Create an IAM role for ECS
- Go to the IAM console and click Create role.
- Select AWS service as the trusted entity type and EC2 as use case.
- Click Next, search AmazonEC2ContainerServiceforEC2Role in the search bar, and select the policy.
- Give name, review, and click Create role.
Step2: Create an ECS cluster
- Go to the ECS dashboard and click Create cluster.
- Select EC2 Linux + Networking cluster template.
- Next, select the instance type and the number of instances, volume size, and key pair.
- Select or create a VPC.
- Select the IAM role that we created for container instance IAM role.
- Give tags and enable container insights and click Create.
Step3: Create task definition and service
- Select task definition from the navigation pane on left and click create task definition.
- Select EC2 as launch type.
- Give a name and select ecsTaskExecutionRole as the task role and task execution role. If this role is not there, go to the IAM console and create with AmazonECSTaskExecutionPolicy attached to it.
- Select Task memory and CPU according to application.
- Click Add Container.
- Add the container image link.
- Click Add and then create task definition.
- Next, go to Cluster and click Create service.
- Select service name and number of tasks.
- Click Next, review and click create service.
- Check Events to see if it worked properly.
- In the tasks, select the container.
- Access the application with container public IP.
- Go to the browser and access your application.
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