This is a sample code to deploy a PHP Application using AWS ECS and CDK
PHP Code directory: ./sample_aws_ecs_php_app/php-app/src/
Docker file: ./sample_aws_ecs_php_app/php-app/Dockerfile
- AWS CDK (latest version)
- Docker deamon (running in background)
- Python3.x/pip/virtualenv
This project is set up like a standard Python project. The initialization
process also creates a virtualenv within this project, stored under the .venv
directory. To create the virtualenv it assumes that there is a python3
(or python for Windows) executable in your path with access to the venv
package. If for any reason the automatic creation of the virtualenv fails,
you can create the virtualenv manually.
To manually create a virtualenv on MacOS and Linux:
$ python3 -m venv .venv
After the init process completes and the virtualenv is created, you can use the following step to activate your virtualenv.
$ source .venv/bin/activate
Once the virtualenv is activated, you can install the required dependencies.
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
We also need following system enviornment variables defined to make the stack work:
CDK_DEFAULT_ACCOUNT - Default AWS account # where application is being deployed CDK_DEFAULT_REGION - Default region where application is being deployed
export CDK_DEFAULT_ACCOUNT=XXXX
export CDK_DEFAULT_REGION=XXXX
Optional (only used if deploying SSL based application along with Route53 Public Hosted Zone + AWS Certificate Manager)
CDK_DOMAIN_NAME - Domain name for Route53 Public Hosted Zone. CDK_FQDN - Domain name to be used for Application behind the Load Balancer e.g. crypto-sheriff.nomoreransom.org CDK_CERT_ARN - ARN # from AWS Certificate Manager to be used with the application load balancer
export CDK_DOMAIN_NAME="XXXX"
export CDK_FQDN="XXXX"
export CDK_CERT_ARN="XXXX"
Install CDK Toolkit stack which allows to stage assets such as Docker images
cdk bootstrap aws://ACCOUNT-NUMBER-1/REGION-1 aws://ACCOUNT-NUMBER-2/REGION-2 ...
At this point you can now synthesize the CloudFormation template for this code.
$ cdk synth
Once Synth process is complete - you are ready to Deploy.
cdk deploy
Enjoy!