dangitfaith / ecs-deploy

Deploy container images to Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS)

#ecs-deploy Deploy container images to Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS).

Applications running inside the container will have access to an environment variable named IMAGE_TAG which will contain the tag of the image used to build that container.

Configuration

A note about working with AWS

In order to communicate with AWS, the aws-sdk library needs to be configured with your authentication credentials and, possibly, with the aws region you wish to target. More information can be found here. If you already use the aws cli then you're likely already configured.

In order to deploy your container, you need to provide this tool with some information in the form of environment variables:

Variable Name	Description
CLUSTER	The name of the target ECS cluster
SERVICE	The name of the target ECS service
CONTAINER	The name of the target ECS container
IMAGE	The image repository (e.g. example_org/example_app)
IMAGE_TAG	The tag of the target container image

Example Usage

Install from the command line:

npm install --save-dev ecs-deploy

Add a deploy script to your package.json:

{
  "scripts": {
    "deploy": "CLUSTER=my_cluster SERVICE=my_service CONTAINER=my_container IMAGE=my_user/my_repo ecs-deploy"
  }
}

When you're ready to deploy, make sure your image has been pushed to the registry. Then from the command line:

IMAGE_TAG=latest npm run deploy