🚀 ECS CI/CD Project

Automated Deployment Pipeline on AWS

👨‍💻 Student: Yousaf DevOps | 📚 Task: Full Stack CI/CD Pipeline

✨ Project Architecture & Features

📦 Containerization

Application packaged in Docker containers for consistency across all environments. Built with Node.js 18 Alpine for minimal image size.

☁️ AWS ECS Fargate

Serverless container orchestration with automatic scaling. No EC2 instances to manage - fully managed compute platform.

⚖️ Load Balancer

Application Load Balancer distributes traffic across containers with health checks and automatic failover capabilities.

🔄 CI/CD Pipeline

GitHub Actions automatically builds, tests, and deploys code changes. Every git push triggers automated deployment to production.

🗄️ Container Registry

Amazon ECR stores and versions Docker images. Secure, scalable, and integrated with ECS for seamless deployments.

🔐 Security & IAM

AWS IAM roles control access. Security groups act as firewalls. Private subnets protect containers from direct internet access.

🧪 API Testing Interface

Test REST API Endpoints
POST PUT DELETE
PATCH
📊 API Response:
Click "Execute Request" to see results...

🏗️ Deployment Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ 👨‍💻 Developer │ │ └─> git push origin master │ └──────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────┘ │ ▼ ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ 🔧 GitHub Actions (CI/CD Pipeline) │ │ ├─> Checkout code │ │ ├─> Build Docker image │ │ ├─> Push to Amazon ECR │ │ └─> Deploy to ECS │ └──────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────┘ │ ▼ ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ 📦 Amazon ECR (Container Registry) │ │ └─> Stores versioned Docker images │ └──────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────┘ │ ▼ ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ☁️ Amazon ECS Fargate Cluster │ │ ├─> Pulls latest image from ECR │ │ ├─> Creates new task with updated container │ │ └─> Performs rolling deployment │ └──────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────┘ │ ▼ ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ⚖️ Application Load Balancer │ │ ├─> Health checks on port 3000 │ │ ├─> Routes traffic to healthy tasks │ │ └─> SSL/TLS termination │ └──────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────┘ │ ▼ ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ 🌐 Public Internet │ │ └─> Users access application │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ 📊 Infrastructure Details: • Region: us-east-1 (N. Virginia) • Cluster: testingCI-CD • Service: nodefullstack-task-service-CI-CD • Task CPU: 0.5 vCPU | Memory: 1 GB • Container Port: 3000 • Load Balancer: nodejs-app-ci-cd-1201617409.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com