Docker deployment to either Amazon ECS or ECR

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Hello there!

You are talking about a lot of different AWS technologies there, so I am not really sure where you want to start from:

  • ECR is to store your docker images
  • ECS is to run your docker images
  • EC2 is the computing service - do you want to use ECS backed by EC2 instead of Fargate?

Anyhow, I can suggest how to build the docker image for ECR. First, I suggest to use kaniko, makes a lot easier to manage the whole thing.

The .gitlab-ci.yml then can be something like this:

buildDocker:
 image:
    name: gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:debug
    entrypoint: [""]
  stage: build
  variables:
    REGISTRY: xxx.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/quarkus-cognito
  only:
    - master
  when: manual
  script:
    # see https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko/issues/1227
    - mkdir -p /kaniko/.docker
    - echo "{\"credsStore\":\"ecr-login\"}" > /kaniko/.docker/config.json
    - /kaniko/executor --cache=true --dockerfile Dockerfile --destination $REGISTRY:$CI_COMMIT_SHORT_SHA --destination $REGISTRY:latest

This build and push your Docker image to ECR: you need to configure in the secret variables of the project AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY. Kaniko will automatically login for you.

After you are able to push your Docker image to ECR we can talk about how to deploy it, but I need to understand if you want to use ECS or something else.

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