The Exercise

I've been looking for usable application to build my ECS Fargate knowledge and I noticed that Mattermost has Kubernetes and Elastic Beanstalk but no version for ECS. I was able to install the Ubuntu 18.04 Version and get it working on a LXD container in less than 30 minutes. Onwards and upwards to something more complex.

Starting points

• Elastic Beanstalk "Docker" Source
• Local Machine Docker Setup
• Production Dockerfile
• Mattermost Docker Hub
• Terraform for Load Test Cluster
• Manual Load Testing
• Packer & CodeBuild

The MVP

• Packer builds in AWS CodeBuild
• Terraform deployment (new VPC in arbitrary region)
• SSL Termination on ALB with ACM with existing domain managed by Route53
• WAF Rules to block all non-US traffic
• Cheapest RDS instance available (db.t3.micro)
• Database Passwords stored securely with SSM
• Use S3 for data
• Single Instance with separate data partition with EBS snapshots enabled