Blue/Green Deployments to Amazon ECS using AWS CloudFormation and AWS CodeDeploy
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This article discusses how to automate blue/green deployments for Amazon ECS applications using AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodeBuild, and AWS CodePipeline. It provides a reference CICD pipeline architecture and considerations for implementing such a pipeline.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Reference architecture for a CICD pipeline enabling blue/green deployments to ECS
- Key considerations like creating CodeDeploy deployment groups, generating CodeDeploy artifacts, handling task definition updates, and passing configuration between pipeline stages
- A reference solution with CloudFormation templates and sample code for implementing the pipeline
- Conclusion highlighting the benefits of the proposed approach
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