services-flake VS phoenix_container_example

If your project uses Nix, checkout services-flake for running services via Nix.

https://github.com/juspay/services-flake

We actually do this in Nammayatri, an OSS project providing "Uber" for autos in India.

https://github.com/nammayatri/nammayatri

There is a services-flake module allowing you to spin the entire nammayatri stack (including postgres, redis, etc.) using a flake app. Similarly, there's one for running load test, which is also run in Jenkins CI.

It's particularly useful for testing a set of microservices.

See https://github.com/cogini/phoenix_container_example for a full example.

I use distroless images based on Debian or Ubuntu, e.g., https://github.com/cogini/phoenix_container_example

The result is images the same size as Alpine, or smaller, without the incompatibilities. I think Alpine is a dead end.

Here is a full-featured example of building images in GitHub Actions that includes optimized caching: https://github.com/cogini/phoenix_container_example/blob/master/.github/workflows/ci-ghcr.yml

Here are some examples of using GitHub actions to build, or call hosted runners in AWS to build Arm images, and using OIDC to manage AWS credentials: https://github.com/cogini/phoenix_container_example/blob/master/.github/workflows/

Parameter Store is a good place to store things. ECS can read from it and set variables. This is a complete example of using Terraform to manage infrastructure with EC2 or ECS: https://github.com/cogini/multi-env-deploy Here is an app that runs in ECS: https://github.com/cogini/phoenix_container_example This task file sets env vars based on parameter store: https://github.com/cogini/phoenix_container_example/blob/master/ecs/taskdef.json

Here is a complete example project which shows how to use Earthly and Visual Studio Code .devcontainer: https://github.com/cogini/phoenix_container_example

I am heavily using multi-stage builds, e.g.: https://github.com/cogini/phoenix_container_example/blob/master/deploy/Dockerfile.alpine