A guide for setting up AWS ECS environment. Assuming a Dockerfile already exists.

• Login to AWS console using admin at aws.amazon.com
• Create new ECR repo
• Setup AWS CLI

aws configure

• Docker Login to ECR

docker login --username AWS --password-stdin <aws account>.dkr.ecr.<aws region>.amazonaws.com

• Build and push docker image to ecr

docker build -t <project>:latest .

docker tag <project>:latest <aws account>.dkr.ecr.<aws region>.amazonaws.com/<project>:latest

docker push <aws account>.dkr.ecr.<aws region>.amazonaws.com/<project>:latest

• Setup EC2 Instance
• Install ECS agent using this guide.
• Create ECS Task file
• Create ECS cluster and configure ECS cluster to use the AWS EC2 instance
• Create ECS Service and Loadbalancer
• Setup DNS to use the new LB
• Setup Database using RDS
• Setup Redis using Elasticache
• Setup Secrets using Secrets Manager
• Update entrypoints to use secmgr utility to fetch credentials at startup.
• Configure CI/CD pipeline to deploy to service on new commit.

Note: Copilot uses AWS Cloudformation

• Download from https://aws.github.io/copilot-cli/docs/getting-started/install/
• On Windows I moved it to C:\Program Files\AWS-ECS-Copilot and added that directory to windows path.