Effective DevOps with AWS

Creating a CI/CD pipeline to deploy to ECS

As we know, having the ability to continuously deploy code across our environments is a very powerful tool as it helps to break out those traditional Dev versus Ops silos, and improve the velocity at which new code is being released. We created a pipeline that allows us to automatically deploy new changes from our helloworld application to our Auto Scaling groups for staging and production. We will create a similar pipeline but, this time, it will deploy changes to ECS. Our ECS infrastructure will be as follows:

Reusing the CloudFormation templates produced in the previous section will create a production ...