Nginx on ECS EC2 type in CloudFormation

Hi,

I was doing some testing with ECS and here I wanted to share with you some insights regarding this matter. As we all know there are 2 ways to implement ECS:

1. ECS FARGATE — you pay for what you use, you run containers without EC2 instances.
2. ECS EC2 — you pay for EC2 capacity, you are deploying EC2 instances for that.

A comparison can be found here: https://containersonaws.com/introduction/ec2-or-aws-fargate/

Here I want to show you how to imlement a simple Nginx on EC2 type of EC2. For that we need:

• ECS cluster
• ECS task definition — configuration for your containers (Docker image, cpu and so on…)
• ECS service — run a required number of tasks, you can look at it as a deployment kind of type.
• Autoscaling group
• Load Balancer
• All needed roles for each of the services.

Once we have all of that we can create our CloudFormation template. Here I am using a simple Nginx image, and I am running it in my default VPC and subnets. So once you want to use this template, you need to:

• change capacity number of instances.
• use the correct subnets.
• use the correct VPC.

Once we deployed it, our task is running well: