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Deploying Django to AWS ECS with Terraform

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Deploying Django to AWS ECS with Terraform

Sets up the following AWS infrastructure:

  • Networking:
    • VPC
    • Public and private subnets
    • Routing tables
    • Internet Gateway
    • Key Pairs
  • Security Groups
  • Load Balancers, Listeners, and Target Groups
  • IAM Roles and Policies
  • ECS:
    • Task Definition (with multiple containers)
    • Cluster
    • Service
  • Launch Config and Auto Scaling Group
  • RDS
  • Health Checks and Logs

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Want to use this project?

  1. Install Terraform

  2. Sign up for an AWS account

  3. Fork/Clone

  4. Build the Django and Nginx Docker images and push them up to ECR:

    $ cd app
$ docker build -t <AWS_ACCOUNT_ID>.dkr.ecr.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/django-app:latest .
$ docker push -t <AWS_ACCOUNT_ID>.dkr.ecr.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/django-app:latest
$ cd ..

$ cd nginx
$ docker build -t <AWS_ACCOUNT_ID>.dkr.ecr.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/django-app:latest .
$ docker push -t <AWS_ACCOUNT_ID>.dkr.ecr.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/django-app:latest
$ cd ..

  5. Update the variables in terraform/variables.tf.

  6. Set the following environment variables, init Terraform, create the infrastructure:

    $ cd terraform
$ export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="YOUR_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID"
$ export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="YOUR_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY"

$ terraform init
$ terraform apply
$ cd ..

  7. You can also run the following script to bump the Task Definition and update the Service:

    $ cd deploy
$ python update-ecs.py --cluster=production-cluster --service=production-service