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.
That was very helpful, thank you! :)
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)?