aws-cdk-flask-docker

A simple Flask web application that can be deployed to ECS Fargate using the AWS CDK.

Install and bootstrap the AWS CDK

npm install -g aws-cdk
cdk bootstrap aws://ACCOUNT-NUMBER/REGION

After the bootstrapping process completes, run the following commands to activate the virtualenv and install the AWS CDK core dependencies.

source .venv/bin/activate
python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

The initialization process also creates a virtualenv within this project, stored under the .venv directory. To manually create a virtualenv:

python -m venv .venv

Deploy the stack

To deploy the stack, run the following command(s):

cdk synth  # synthesizes and outputs the AWS CloudFormation template (optional)
cdk deploy # synthesizes and deploys the stack

Useful commands

• cdk ls list all stacks in the app
• cdk synth emits the synthesized CloudFormation template
• cdk deploy deploy this stack to your default AWS account/region
• cdk diff compare deployed stack with current state
• cdk docs open CDK documentation

See: Deploying to ECS Fargate using the AWS CDK