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Re: AWS Copilot

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Post by gavinray » Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 2:50 AM UTC

kohidavez wrote: post #9

gavinray wrote: post #6

I happened to catch this on the Github daily trending list a week or so back, really cool. For similar tools (though this one is ECS + Fargate), also see: https://somanymachines.com/fargate https://github.com/awslabs/fargatecli I'm pretty particular to Pulumi, and defining infra in typed programming languages with full IDE tooling. AWS CDK is the AWS-centric equivalent, and that's a great and under-represented tool a…

Copilot can also help set up HTTPS/ACM Certs/Subdomains: https://github.com/aws/copilot-cli/wiki/Applications#additio... I love the cloudrun style service too - but one thing I think is cool about running on ECS/Fargate is that once you outgrow the constraints of CloudRun style services - you can drop down to the more granular infrastructure to make tweaks and adjustments. Just my 2c :)

> Copilot can also help set up HTTPS/ACM Certs/Subdomains

Oh yeah for sure! I was really excited about this for that reason when I found it because of recent Fargate pains.

The irrational part of me just wishes that the "magic" from tools that AWS publishes like Copilot, Cloud Development Kit, Fargate CLI, etc could abstract it away in more of my interactions with AWS ;^)

> once you outgrow the constraints of CloudRun style services - you can drop down to the more granular infrastructure to make tweaks and adjustments.

Definitely, you're trading convenience for flexibility with Cloud Run vs Fargate. Cloud Run also doesn't support websocket traffic yet ( RIP =/ ).

I'm a massive fanboy of Serverless Containers and think they're the best thing since sliced bread. I run services on both AWS and GCP, and think Cloud Run and Fargate are both solid.

My takeaway with AWS I guess is: Don't interact with provisioning/managing infra raw, use the CDK or other tooling you publish haha.

Re: AWS Copilot

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 2:51 AM UTC

kohidavez wrote: post #4

Hi!! I’m a developer on AWS Copilot! We’d love your feedback! Homebrew: brew install aws/tap/copilot-cli Docs: https://aws.github.io/copilot-cli/ Feedback & Requests: https://github.com/aws/copilot-cli/issues/new

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Re: AWS Copilot

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Post by miraj18 » Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 2:54 AM UTC

This is cool

Re: AWS Copilot

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Post by emmelaich » Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 3:21 AM UTC

kohidavez wrote: post #4

Hi!! I’m a developer on AWS Copilot! We’d love your feedback! Homebrew: brew install aws/tap/copilot-cli Docs: https://aws.github.io/copilot-cli/ Feedback & Requests: https://github.com/aws/copilot-cli/issues/new

It's a pity you used "copilot", because that name is already used for Red Hat's admin product.

Re: AWS Copilot

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Post by jsmeaton » Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 3:56 AM UTC

kohidavez wrote: post #4

Hi!! I’m a developer on AWS Copilot! We’d love your feedback! Homebrew: brew install aws/tap/copilot-cli Docs: https://aws.github.io/copilot-cli/ Feedback & Requests: https://github.com/aws/copilot-cli/issues/new

I'm actually in the middle of moving some apps to ECS/Fargate. Here are a few of our requirements, it'd be great if you could share if copilot meets or does not meet them.

1. Production and Staging in separate accounts 2. A new environment provisioned per github PR with setup/teardown - ideally within the same VPC/Subnet ranges, so they can utilise shared databases 3. Secrets stored in Secrets Manager or Parameter Store 4. Blue/Green deploys for production with a manual cutover step (manual step optional) 5. Deployment of 2 services (app, background tasks) from the same dockerfile/commit

Re: AWS Copilot

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Post by ak217 » Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 3:57 AM UTC

kohidavez wrote: post #4

Hi!! I’m a developer on AWS Copilot! We’d love your feedback! Homebrew: brew install aws/tap/copilot-cli Docs: https://aws.github.io/copilot-cli/ Feedback & Requests: https://github.com/aws/copilot-cli/issues/new

Hi - I'm interested in using this to manage deployments on top of a Fargate cluster managed by Terraform. Is copilot able to import such a cluster or otherwise manage tasks in an existing cluster?

Re: AWS Copilot

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Post by zelly » Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 4:03 AM UTC

kohidavez wrote: post #4

Hi!! I’m a developer on AWS Copilot! We’d love your feedback! Homebrew: brew install aws/tap/copilot-cli Docs: https://aws.github.io/copilot-cli/ Feedback & Requests: https://github.com/aws/copilot-cli/issues/new

Remove the emojis please

Re: AWS Copilot

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Post by kohidavez » Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 4:11 AM UTC

jsmeaton wrote: post #15

kohidavez wrote: post #4

Hi!! I’m a developer on AWS Copilot! We’d love your feedback! Homebrew: brew install aws/tap/copilot-cli Docs: https://aws.github.io/copilot-cli/ Feedback & Requests: https://github.com/aws/copilot-cli/issues/new

I'm actually in the middle of moving some apps to ECS/Fargate. Here are a few of our requirements, it'd be great if you could share if copilot meets or does not meet them. 1. Production and Staging in separate accounts 2. A new environment provisioned per github PR with setup/teardown - ideally within the same VPC/Subnet ranges, so they can utilise shared databases 3. Secrets stored in Secrets Manager or Parameter St…

Awesome - first best of luck on your transition!

1 Yeap! We can do that. 2 hmmm we don’t support this out of the box - but I’d love to know what you expect out of this. All your services spun up and infra? 3. Check! 4. No blue green deployments yet :( 5. Yea! We support this via a pipeline.

Re: AWS Copilot

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Post by kohidavez » Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 4:12 AM UTC

ak217 wrote: post #16

kohidavez wrote: post #4

Hi!! I’m a developer on AWS Copilot! We’d love your feedback! Homebrew: brew install aws/tap/copilot-cli Docs: https://aws.github.io/copilot-cli/ Feedback & Requests: https://github.com/aws/copilot-cli/issues/new

Hi - I'm interested in using this to manage deployments on top of a Fargate cluster managed by Terraform. Is copilot able to import such a cluster or otherwise manage tasks in an existing cluster?

Not yet but we’re tracking resource importing here: https://github.com/aws/copilot-cli/issues/740

Re: AWS Copilot

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Post by vazamb » Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 4:49 AM UTC

What are the advantages of this over CDK? It's trivially easy to spin up a loadbalanced service https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/api/latest/docs/@aws-cdk_aws...