I usually work on the frontend, but I had to learn Docker and Nginx last week in order to set up my app's backend. So I am a bit confused about how to deploy it now.
I read about AWS ECS, however, it seems that I cannot "just deploy" to it using my docker-compose.yml file. Deploying directly to EC2 can be problematic when I want to update my backend without any downtime.
I also do not want to introduce any other complicated tool to this setup, because I feel like I need to "digest" what I've learned so far.
PS. ECS CLI supports deploying using a Docker Compose file, but it's missing some Docker Compose features that I'm currently using.
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Here's a very simple solution we found requiring no dependencies beyond
nginxanddocker-compose: engineering.tines.com/blog/simple-...Turns out, a well placed bash script does the trick! Hopefully this can help others.
Docker-compose itself doesn't have Zero downtime deployment build-in. It's just a wrapper for docker commands so you can manage a bunch of docker containers easily. But you can use Docker Swarm to do so. Docker Swarm is packaged with docker for you to achieve clustering.
I see, thank you :) I'll be using this method
However, what do companies generally use to deal with this (aside from having a load balancer)?
That was very helpful, thank you! :)