ecs-fargate-deployment VS ecs-fargate-ci-cd-pipeline

The starting point for this article is the repository for deploying application to ECS Fargate. You can find the finished code on github.

Now, if you go to ECR in the AWS Console and check your repository, you should have a View push commands button in the top right corner. Go to your application directory where you have a Dockerfile – or use nest app from the repo – and follow these instructions with one caveat. We will be deploying ECS Fargate with the ARM64 architecture as it is cheaper, so unless you have a computer with a ARM64 processor e.g., Apple Silicone, you will have to change the second step to:

As you can see in the diagram, we're starting off with a Load Balanced Fargate Cluster inside a VPC. The application is secured with an SSL certificate on a custom domain. Download code from the previous article about adding SSL certificate to a Fargate app if you'd like to follow along. Keep in mind you will need a SSL certificate and a hosted zone to get this to work. If you'd like to see the finished code for this article, you can find it on github.