This repo contains all the code necessary to configure AWS infrastructure to run autoscaling containerised applications using AWS ECS. Specifically it leverages the Fargate Service for pay as you go autoscaling. Everything related to configuring infrastructure via AWS CDK can be found in cdk/lib/cdk-stack.ts

For the sake of example, a Laravel application is what has been packaged up for deployment on our infrastructure. This uses a black Laravel 8.4 installation. The only change made is in routes/api where I have added a health-check route for the load balancer

Route::get('/health-check', function () {
    return response('OK', 200);
});

You'll need to install the CDK CLI

npm install -g aws-cdk

Then you'll need to make sure you have AWS Credentials configured on the host machine.

To be run from the /cdk directory

• cdk bootstrap you will need to bootstrap some CDK assets the first time you deploy
• cdk deploy deploy this stack to your default AWS account/region
• cdk diff compare deployed stack with current state
• cdk synth emits the synthesized CloudFormation template

Note: Deploying this infrastructure WILL incur charges in your AWS account. The following infrastructure costs roughly $100-150 USD/month to maintain on AWS.

This code is provided as is without warranty. Feel free to use any of the Docker config, or CDK code for your own projects.

If you want to learn more about how this works, you can check out my short course on Gumroad. It will cover everything referenced in the CDK stack in under 90 minutes.