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one node Amazon ECS cluster using EC2 Spot instance and haproxy

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One node ECS cluster using Spot Instance

This will deploy a single node ECS with t3a.micro, in us-east-2 (Ohio), this will give you ~USD $2 for 2vcpu/1Gib. ECS Tasks will use AWS Cloud Map for service discovery while Ha Proxy provides the load balancing.

Architecture diagram

Install

git clone https://github.com/enghwa/OneNodeEcs.git
cd OneNodeEcs
npm install
export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-2  # or any of your favourite region, but take note if the t3a.micro spot price
npx [email protected] bootstrap
npx [email protected] deploy

Once all the resources are deploy (monitor this using AWS Cloudformation dashboard), you can use your browser to test:

http://<public IP of EC2>/  --> nyant cat
http://<public IP of EC2>/nginx  --> load balanced 2 nginx tasks

Remove

npx [email protected] destroy