AWS App Runner

AWS App Runner : AWS App Runner is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to deploy from source code or container image directly to a scalable and secure web application.

Benefits :

• Easy to use
• Saves time
• Scales with traffic

Features:

• Automatic Deployments
• Logs and metrics
• Load Balancing
• Auto Scaling
• Secure by design

Use cases:

• Frontend and backend web applications
• Microservices and APIs
• Rapid production deployments

Pre-requisties for AWS APP Runner :

Task :Create Image and Push to ECR Repository
Launch EC2 instance - Amazon Linux 2 AMI, t2.micro
Connect to instance using EC2 Instance Connect

Run the following commands on EC2:

sudo su
yum update
yum install docker
systemctl enable docker.service
systemctl start docker.service
docker pull nginx
docker images

Create an IAM role ECR_Role and attach the policy

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Id": "ECRPolicy",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "AllowAll",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "ecr:*",
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

1.Attach role - ECR_Role to EC2 instance and then run the following commands
2.Create ECR Repository
aws ecr create-repository --repository-name nginx --region eu-west-1

3.Tag the image and which we created earlier then replace ACCOUNT_Number with your account number
docker tag nginx:latest ACCOUNT_Number.dkr.ecr.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/nginx:latest
4.Authenticate ECR login, replace ACCOUNT_Number with your account number.
aws ecr get-login-password --region eu-west-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin ACCOUNT_Number.dkr.ecr.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/nginx
5.Push the image to ecr and replace ACCOUNT_Number with your account number.
docker push ACCOUNT_Number.dkr.ecr.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/nginx:latest

Note : From the above points 3,4 and 5, i have used the region ireland : eu-west-1 and change based on your preference.

Step by Step Approach for AWS App Runner creation

Step 1 :

Step 2:
Source can be chosen from two options

• Container Registry (selected this option for the demo)
• Source Code Repository

Step 3:
Select Container image URI by clicking on the Browse button

Then select the image

Step 4: Select Deployment Trigger

• Manual / Automatic
• ECR Access Role -> Select create new service role -> Role with name AppRunnerECRAccessRole will be created Then click on next

Step 5: Configure Service
Step 5.1: Give the service name as nginx-service and port as 80

Step 5.2 : Keep the remaining settings as it is and then click Next

Step 6 : Review and Create

Step 7: Deployment in progress

Step 8: Select Default domain as per the below screenshot - https://53zz55dm4a.eu-west-1.awsapprunner.com/

step 9 : Render the url - https://53zz55dm4a.eu-west-1.awsapprunner.com/

Step 10 : Deleting the App Runner - service

Confirm the deletion by typing delete and then click on Delete

Step 11 : Deleting in progress

Step 12 : Also delete EC2 created in the pre-requisite tasks.

Conclusion:

1. Created Image and Push to ECR Repository
2. Created APP Runner and used the image created
3. Rendered the APP Runner URL generated
4. Destroyed APP Runner service

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