ECS creation automation using AWS CDK

This is a CDK project that creates an ECS cluster with a Fargate service and a load balancer to expose the service to the internet.

The Dockerfile associated contains a simple apache web server that serves a static html page.

Resources created

AWS CDK deploys the following resources:

• VPC
• ECS Cluster
• Fargate Service
• Load Balancer
• Security Groups

Useful commands

• 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