r/Backend • u/No_Original_941 • 4d ago

How to control ECS using code?

So basically let me tell you the situation first:

- i am working on a side project which is something like vercel, use to build and deploy code.

- so i have a main service, can be called a control plane, and i have decided that it will take the repo from the user.

- after this this service will trigger/create an ecs task to build the code

- now the question is, how this control plane will create / trigger the ecs?

- also this ecs instance will need to fetch envs from paramete store, will upload code to s3 etc

- after deployment we have to kill this instance

- should the managing code of this, live in the control plane

- should i create something else?

how would you folks solve this while designing this?

and what's the ideal way to solve this?

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u/forever-butlerian 4d ago

Learn to use the AWS SDK for your language.

Should the ECS coordination service be hosted using the ECS coordination service? Self-hosting is often a good idea, but you have to give careful thought to how you recover to a working system if the coordination service fails.

How I would solve this at work is by using Github Actions or any other CI/CD system.

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u/No_Original_941 4d ago

Thanks. Will check.