Containers.yaml

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Description: Deploy a service into an ECS cluster behind a public load balancer.
Parameters:
  #ClusterName:
  #  Type: String
  #  Default: production
  #  Description: The name of the parent cluster stack that you created. Necessary
  #               to locate and reference resources created by that stack.
  ClusterName: 
    Type: String
    Description: Name of the Cluster to create the target group 
  VPCID: 
    Type: String 
    Description: VPCID of the VPC that will be used to allocate the target group. 
  ServiceName:
    Type: String
    Default: service-jc
    Description: A name for the service
  ImageUrl:
    Type: String
    Default: nginx
    Description: The url of a docker image that contains the application process that
                 will handle the traffic for this service
  ContainerPort:
    Type: Number
    Default: 80
    Description: What port number the application inside the docker container is binding to
  ContainerCpu:
    Type: Number
    Default: 256
    Description: How much CPU to give the container. 1024 is 1 CPU
  ContainerMemory:
    Type: Number
    Default: 512
    Description: How much memory in megabytes to give the container
  Path:
    Type: String
    Default: "*"
    Description: A path on the public load balancer that this service
                 should be connected to. Use * to send all load balancer
                 traffic to this service.
  Priority:
    Type: Number
    Default: 1
    Description: The priority for the routing rule added to the load balancer.
                 This only applies if your have multiple services which have been
                 assigned to different paths on the load balancer.
  DesiredCount:
    Type: Number
    Default: 2
    Description: How many copies of the service task to run
  Role:
    Type: String
    Default: ""
    Description: (Optional) An IAM role to give the service's containers if the code within needs to
                 access other AWS resources like S3 buckets, DynamoDB tables, etc
  LoadBalancerListener: 
    Type: String 
Conditions:
  HasCustomRole: !Not [ !Equals [!Ref 'Role', ''] ]

Resources:
  # The task definition. This is a simple metadata description of what
  # container to run, and what resource requirements it has.
  TaskDefinition:
    Type: AWS::ECS::TaskDefinition
    Properties:
      Family: !Ref 'ServiceName'
      Cpu: !Ref 'ContainerCpu'
      Memory: !Ref 'ContainerMemory'
      TaskRoleArn:
        Fn::If:
          - 'HasCustomRole'
          - !Ref 'Role'
          - !Ref "AWS::NoValue"
      ContainerDefinitions:
        - Name: !Ref 'ServiceName'
          Cpu: !Ref 'ContainerCpu'
          Memory: !Ref 'ContainerMemory'
          Image: !Ref 'ImageUrl'
          PortMappings:
            - ContainerPort: !Ref 'ContainerPort'

  # The service. The service is a resource which allows you to run multiple
  # copies of a type of task, and gather up their logs and metrics, as well
  # as monitor the number of running tasks and replace any that have crashed
  Service:
    Type: AWS::ECS::Service
    DependsOn: LoadBalancerRule
    Properties:
      ServiceName: !Ref 'ServiceName'
      Cluster: !Ref ClusterName
      DeploymentConfiguration:
        MaximumPercent: 200
        MinimumHealthyPercent: 75
      DesiredCount: !Ref 'DesiredCount'
      TaskDefinition: !Ref 'TaskDefinition'
      LoadBalancers:
        - ContainerName: !Ref 'ServiceName'
          ContainerPort: !Ref 'ContainerPort'
          TargetGroupArn: !Ref 'TargetGroup'

  # A target group. This is used for keeping track of all the tasks, and
  # what IP addresses / port numbers they have. You can query it yourself,
  # to use the addresses yourself, but most often this target group is just
  # connected to an application load balancer, or network load balancer, so
  # it can automatically distribute traffic across all the targets.
  TargetGroup:
    Type: AWS::ElasticLoadBalancingV2::TargetGroup
    Properties:
      HealthCheckIntervalSeconds: 6
      HealthCheckPath: /
      HealthCheckProtocol: HTTP
      HealthCheckTimeoutSeconds: 5
      HealthyThresholdCount: 2
      Name: !Ref 'ServiceName'
      Port: 80
      Protocol: HTTP
      UnhealthyThresholdCount: 2
      VpcId: !Ref VPCID

  # Create a rule on the load balancer for routing traffic to the target group
  LoadBalancerRule:
    Type: AWS::ElasticLoadBalancingV2::ListenerRule
    Properties:
      Actions:
        - TargetGroupArn: !Ref 'TargetGroup'
          Type: 'forward'
      Conditions:
        - Field: path-pattern
          Values: [!Ref 'Path']
      ListenerArn: !Ref LoadBalancerListener
      Priority: !Ref 'Priority'