Aws Ecs Worker Template

Requirements

• AWS CDK
• AWS cli
• AWS User with permissions
• Docker / Docker-compose
• Python3.7

Initial setup

Deploy Cloudformation stack using CDK (initial setup only)

• The ServiceStack creates the following resources:
  • ECR Repository (empty)
  • SQS Queue and Dead-Letter-Queue
  • CloudWatch Alarm
  • ECS Task Definition (with QUEUE_NAME as environment variable)
  • ECS Service, with AutoScalling
  • Task Definition and Task role and policies
  • Log Group

Step by Step

1. Build and push image to ECR

2. CDK Deploy service

Testing

aws sqs create-queue \
        --queue-name test-my-worker

Get task definition

aws ecs describe-task-definition \
    --task-definition ${API_NAME}-staging \
    --query taskDefinition > task-definition-staging.json