AWS Copilot: Deploying an Amazon Elastic Container Service Infrastructure & Application

4 min readJul 13, 2020

Step by step tutorial for Installation of Copilot and application deployment | DevOps CICD pipeline for AWS ECS with help of AWS Copilot

Hi Folks,

Today, I am going to explain AWS Copilot CLI, which was released by Amazon by last week July 09, 2020. It will be a new sky limit for DevOps Process in the ECS cluster.

Use Case: It will highly useful in microservices deployment, where, only developers are responsible for infra deployment and management. So the developer can easily manage the infra from their local machine & create the deployment pipeline. This way they will save a lot of time, as time is directly proportional to money. Also, a company can reduce the cost for system admin or cloud engineer as these positions are not required in this kind of infra management. Basic docker and Linux knowledge are required at the developer end.

What is AWS Copilot…?

The AWS Copilot command-line interface (CLI) provides application-first, high-level commands to simplify modeling, creating, releasing, and managing production-ready containerized applications on Amazon ECS from a local development environment.

Provisioned with application templates, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD pipeline options, the AWS Copilot CLI aligns with application workflows that support modern application best practices. Use the AWS Copilot CLI as part of your everyday development and testing cycle as an alternative to the AWS Management Console.

Design Architecture:

Prerequisites

Before you begin, complete the following prerequisites:

Set up an AWS account.
Install the AWS Copilot CLI.
Install and configure the AWS CLI.
Run aws configure to set up a default profile that the AWS Copilot CLI will use to manage your application and services.
Install Docker, Git

Let’s Get started with Installation part

Copilot Installation on Linux Server:

sudo curl -Lo /usr/local/bin/copilot https://github.com/aws/copilot-cli/releases/download/v0.1.0/copilot-linux-v0.1.0  \
   && sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/copilot \
   && copilot --help

Install Docker & Git in Linux Server

yum install docker git  -yservice docker startchkconfig docker on

As I am using EC2 Linux server so that I need to create a soft link for Copilot binary file to “/usr/bin/copilot” location

ln -s /usr/local/bin/copilot /usr/bin/copilot

Go to Opt directory and clone your empty git repo.

https://github.com/manikcloud/copilot

cd /opt/git clone https://github.com/manikcloud/copilot-demo.gitllcd copilot-demo/

Please find the video with step by step tutorial for Installation of Copilot and application deployment

High-level steps or commands & its output:

copilot init

Once copilot init command complete the entire setup, below resources has been created in your was accounts:

AWS VPC
Subnets
Security Group
ECS Cluster
ECS Service
Fargate task
Service Discovery
ECR Repositories
Application Load balancer
ACM Certs

copilot app

copilot svc

History for all terminal command

    1  yum update -y
    2  sudo curl -Lo /usr/local/bin/copilot https://github.com/aws/copilot-cli/releases/download/v0.1.0/copilot-linux-v0.1.0     && sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/copilot    && copilot --help
    3  ln -s /usr/local/bin/copilot /usr/bin/copilot
    4  copilot --help
    5  yum install docker git  -yservice docker startchkconfig docker on
    6  yum install docker git  -y
    7  service docker start
    8  chkconfig docker on
    9  service docker status
   10  https://github.com/manikcloud/copilot.git
   11  cd /opt/
   12  git clone https://github.com/manikcloud/copilot.git
   13  ll
   14  cd copilot/
   15  ll
   16  vim Dockerfile
   17  vim index.html
   18  copilot init
   19  aws configure
   20  copilot init
   21  aws s3 ls
   22  copilot init
   23  ll
   24  copilot init
   25  copilot
   26  copilot app
   27  copilot app ls
   28  copilot app show
   29  copilot app init
   30  copilot app env
   31  copilot env
   32  copilot ls
   33  copilot env ls
   34  copilot
   35  copilot svc
   36  copilot svc ls
   37  copilot svc package
   38  copilot svc show
   39  copilot svc
   40  copilot svc status
   41  copilot svc logs
   42  copilot svc
   43  copilot svc logs --follow

Conclusion:

I have successfully shown you all the steps for AWS Copilot installation and application deployment. All AWS infra {ECS, Tasks, Laodbalancer, IAM, VPC, and VPC related resources } has been created automatically in DevOps manner. In the end, we tested our Deployment ALB DNS to paste in a web browser, and our website is up and running.