This pattern describes how to automatically create the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and underlying infrastructure for building and deploying microservices on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). You can use this approach if you want to set up proof-of-concept CI/CD pipelines to show your organization the benefits of CI/CD, microservices, and DevOps. You can also use this approach to create initial CI/CD pipelines that you can then customize or change according to your organization’s requirements.
The pattern’s approach creates a production environment and non-production environment that each have a virtual private cloud (VPC) and an Amazon ECS cluster configured to run in two Availability Zones. These environments are shared by all your microservices and you then create a CI/CD pipeline for each microservice. These CI/CD pipelines pull changes from a source repository in AWS CodeCommit, automatically build the changes, and then deploy them into your production and non-production environments. When a pipeline successfully completes all of its stages, you can use URLs to access the microservice in the production and non-production environments.
