ECS Setup
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This article explains on how to create an AWS network in VPC and ECS Cluster using CloudFormation template. It includes the following topics:
Configuring ECS
To configure ECS, follow the steps below:
- Navigate to AWS CloudFormation -> Stacks -> Create stack.
Note: Before you create a stack, you must have a template that describes what resources AWS CloudFormation will include in your stack. - Prepare a template.
- Specify the template by uploading zero-vpc-ecs.yaml to create a dedicated VPC.
- Specify stack details by filling in the following information:
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- Stack name: zero-vpc
- Parameters: IP CIDR for VPC — 10.8.0.0/16
VPC is successfully created.
- Use zero-mssql.yaml to create a test database. To do that, fill in the following information:
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- Stack name: zero-mssql
- ParentVPCStack: zero-vpc
- Fill in the other parameters as required.
Creating an ECS Cluster
To create an ECS cluster, follow the steps below:
- From the CloudFormation console, use zero-ecs.yaml to create the ECS cluster.
Fill in the following information:
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- Your ECS cluster name
- Select VPC
- Select public and private subnets
- Your instance type (for details, see Amazon EC2 Instance Types)
- Max and min size of your cluster
Note: This is the number of EC2 instances per cluster. For development and testing purposes both can be set to 1. - Load Balancer scheme
Note: If you need the application to be accessible from the internet, select "internet-facing." - Service tasks autoscaling (select true and write max, min, desired count)
- Docker image URI
- Secret manager ARN created in the Preparation page
Note: These options are optional. - If you need to use HTTPS with a custom FQDN, create a subdomain in your hosted zone and certificate in AWS Certificate Manager. Enter the certificate ARN in LoadBalancerCertificateArn. Afterward, in the route53 hosted zone, alias the subdomain to LoadBalancer FQDN.
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