AWS ECS Demo

Requirements

• AWS CLI
• Amazon EC2
• Docker
• Amazon ECS
• Amazon ECS Agent manages containers with Amazon ECS.

Clone

git clone https://github.com/sukhchander/ecs-demo
cd ecs-demo

AWS CLI

Ensure AWS CLI is set to use a region where Amazon ECS is available ie: (us-east-1, us-west1, us-west-2)

view:

aws configure list

modify:

aws configure

Setup and Configuration

Run the following command:

./setup.sh

Output:

Creating ECS cluster (ecs-demo-cluster) ... ✔
Creating VPC (ecs-demo-vpc) ... ✔
Creating Subnet (ecs-demo-subnet) ... ✔
Creating Internet Gateway (ecs-demo) ... ✔
Creating Security Group (ecs-demo) ... ✔
Creating Key Pair (ecs-demo-key.pem) ... ✔
Creating IAM role (ecs-role) ... ✔
Creating Launch Configuration (ecs-launch-configuration) ... ✔
Creating Auto Scaling Group (ecs-demo-group) with 3 instances ... ✔
Waiting for instances to join the cluster (this may take a moment) ... ✔
Registering ECS Task Definition (ecs-demo-task) ... ✔
Creating ECS Service with 3 tasks (ecs-demo-service) ... ✔
Waiting for tasks to start running ... ✔
ECS cluster contains: 
  http://ec2-52-43-201-147.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
  http://ec2-52-43-162-49.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
  http://ec2-52-38-20-31.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
ECS cluster launched ... ✔

Result

setup.sh:

• Created an Amazon ECS cluster
• Spawned 3 EC2 instances that are now part of the ECS cluster
• Created an ECS task family that describes the HTTP Server and API containers

Verify

Navigate to one of 3 instances (response is from HTTP Server container):

launchy http://ec2-52-43-201-147.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com