This terraform module is an AWS ECS Application Module that creates a Networking LoadBalance Application setup on ECS.
The following resources will be created:
- Cloudwatch Metrics alarm - Provides a CloudWatch Metric Alarm resource.
- IAM roles - The cloudwatch event needs an IAM Role to run the ECS task definition. A role is created and a policy will be granted via IAM policy.
- IAM policy - Policy to be attached to the IAM Role. This policy will have a trust with the cloudwatch event service. And it will use the managed policy
AmazonEC2ContainerServiceEventsRolecreated by AWS. - Security Groups for the ECS nodes
- Simple Notification Service (SNS) topics - Alarm topics to create and alert on ECS service metrics. Leaving empty disables all alarms.
- Auto Scaling
- Cloudwatch Log Groups
- Network Load Balancer (NLB)
- ECS task definition - A task definition is required to run Docker containers in Amazon ECS.
- ECS Task-scheduler activated by cloudwatch events
In addition i added some optional modules:
- Autoscaling
- Enables or not autoscaling based on average CPU tracking
- Target average CPU percentage to track for autoscaling
- A Hostname to create DNS record for this app.
how to spin up infra:
- terraform init (to initialize terraform)
- terraform plan: to see the resources that are going to be provisioned (or changed)
- terraform apply: to deploy them
please feel free to reach out to me for any question thank you. ...