This pattern shows how to deploy containers in an Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) cluster in two ways—by using the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Management Console, and by using AWS Copilot—to demonstrate how AWS Copilot simplifies deployment tasks.
Amazon ECS is a highly scalable, fast container management service that makes it easy to run, stop, and manage containers on a cluster. Your containers are defined in a task definition that you use to run individual tasks or tasks within a service. You can run your tasks and services on a serverless infrastructure that is managed by AWS Fargate. Alternatively, for more control over your infrastructure, you can run your tasks and services on a cluster of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances that you manage.
The AWS Copilot command line interface (CLI) commands simplify building, releasing, and operating production-ready containerized applications on Amazon ECS from a local development environment. The AWS Copilot CLI aligns with developer workflows that support modern application best practices: from using infrastructure as code to creating a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline provisioned on behalf of a user. You can use the AWS Copilot CLI as part of your everyday development and testing cycle as an alternative to the AWS Management Console.
