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Fix or remove ECS-ECR container app tutorial #870

@joe4dev

Description

@joe4dev

The ECS-ECR container app tutorial is broken and has many issues: https://docs.localstack.cloud/tutorials/ecs-ecr-container-app/

We should either fix or remove it.

Motivation

  • Initially reported by a pro customer
  • Previously discussed in a prior update (May 2023) to this app: improve the lambda container images tutorial #628 (comment)
  • I retested (2023-10-17) and the tutorial and it still doesn't work for me.
    • The CloudFormation stack fails to deploy with a validation error An error occurred (ValidationError) when calling the CreateTargetGroup operation: A VPC ID must be specified

Further suggestions for improvement

  • Use concrete naming suggestions instead of placeholders that need to be changed for no reason
  • Avoid using naming collisions for <STACK_NAME> being used twice in different context
  • Copy/pasting long blobs of partial files and then making them fit together is very cumbersome
  • Consider providing a minimal example or use a repository to bootstrap the tutorial. The CloudFormation template is unnecessarily complex for the intended demonstration purpose

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