Continuous deployment on Amazon ECS (SVS338)

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Continuous Deployment on Amazon ECS

Introduction

  • The presenter, SA Kumar Sala, is a Specialist Solution Architect for Containers at AWS, helping customers deploy and modernize their container workloads on AWS.
  • Customers want to release new versions of their applications faster, without spending time managing deployment infrastructure and manually rolling back deployments.
  • This session will cover how Amazon ECS features enable faster, reliable, and automated deployments with rollback capabilities.

Release Process Stages

  • The typical release process stages are:
    • Source: Developers commit code to the repository, and peer review is done.
    • Build: Artifacts are generated, including the container image, which is pushed to a repository like Amazon ECR.
    • Test: Integration, load, and security testing are performed.
    • Production: Observability tools are deployed to monitor the application.

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

  • Continuous integration happens between the Source and Build stages, automatically building artifacts on code commits.
  • Continuous deployment is the automated process from Source to Production, with no manual steps.
    • The build is triggered on code commit, and the new container image is pushed to the registry.
    • Automated testing is performed, and if successful, the application is automatically deployed to production.
    • If there are issues between Test and Production, the deployment is automatically rolled back.

Amazon ECS and Continuous Deployment Goals

  • Amazon ECS handles the deployment and run stages of the release process.
  • Continuous deployment goals:
    • Automatically deploy to staging for testing.
    • Ensure safe production deployments without affecting customers.
    • Deliver faster with increased deployment frequency.
    • Reduce lead time and failure rates.

Amazon ECS Deployment Features

  • Amazon ECS supports rolling and blue-green deployments.
  • The demo focuses on rolling deployments and the deployment circuit breaker feature.
    • The deployment circuit breaker automatically monitors task launches and rolls back to the last known good state if there are deployment failures.
    • Enabling the deployment circuit breaker is a one-click setup in the Amazon ECS console.

Live Demo

  • The demo sets up a staging and production cluster, each with an ECS service running the "hello server" application.
  • The presenter introduces a bug and a version change in the application code and pushes it to the repository.
  • The code pipeline is triggered, and the deployment circuit breaker is enabled for both the staging and production services.
  • The deployment to the staging environment fails due to the introduced bug, but the application remains available as the deployment is automatically rolled back.
  • The pipeline then successfully deploys the updated application to the staging environment, and the test stage is executed.
  • Once the tests pass, the application is deployed to the production environment.

Key Takeaways

  • Amazon ECS provides built-in features for reliable and automated deployments, including the deployment circuit breaker.
  • The deployment circuit breaker automatically monitors and rolls back deployments in case of failures, ensuring the application remains available.
  • Enabling the deployment circuit breaker is a simple one-click setup in the Amazon ECS console.
  • Amazon ECS helps achieve continuous deployment goals by automating the release process and reducing lead time and failure rates.

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