Monolithic app to Microservices with Docker, ECS and AWS Fargate > Deploy the container using AWS Fargate

Deploy the container using AWS Fargate

First we will create Task definitions to run monolith
- Go to ECS
- Select Task definitions
- Find the Task definition named Monolith-Definition-STACK_NAME
Go to ECR
- Copy Image URI
Back to interface ECS
- Select Monolith-Definition-STACK_NAME
In the interface Monolith-Definition-STACK_NAME revision 1. We will create a new revision.
- Select Create new revision
Configure the OS and amount of CPU and memory
Configure Container
- Name, enter the service name of your choice (In the lab, enter monolith-service)
- Paste the copied Image URI into Image URI
Configure Log collection
- Find the log group of the lab in the CloudFormation stack, copy the physical ID and paste it in the value of the awslogs-group key.
Finish creating a new revision
In the Monolith-Definition-STACK_NAME console UI:
- Select Deploy
- Select Run task
In the Deploy interface
- Environment, select Existing cluster, select Cluster-STACK_NAME
- Select Launch type
- In Launch type, select FARGATE
- Platform version select LATEST
In the Deployment configuration section
- Select Task
- Desired choose 1
Configure Networking
- VPC, select Mysfits-VPC-STACK_NAME
- Subnets select Mysfits-PublicOne-STACK_NAME
- Select Security Group, Select Use an existing security group
- Security group name, choose default but configure inbound port 80
- Auto-assign public IP - “ENABLED”
- Select Deploy
Create task successfully
Select the task you just created and select Networking.
- Purpose of using Public IP to use curl command to check by making GET request.
- When using Fargate initialization, each task gets its own ENI and Public IP and Private IP.
Make a browser access
```
http://TASK_PUBLIC_IP_ADDRESS/mysfits
```
Execute the curl command on the CLI of your IDE
```
curl http://TASK_PUBLIC_IP_ADDRESS/mysfits
```
Select the task you just created and select Logs
Using AWS CloudWatch to View Log events
- Open the CloudWatch Console
- Select monolith log group (STACK_NAME-MythicalMonolithLogGroup-XXX)
- Choose a log stream to see the detailed event logs
After running the curl (step 15) command successfully, we can delete the task
- Select Task
- Select Monolith-Definition-STACK_NAME revision 2.
- Select Stop
- Select Stop selected
If asked, type Stop to verify and click on Stop
Delete task successfully.
Delete the HTTP port 80 rule you have created for the default Security group of the VPC in this lab’s stack.