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# Architecture
ECS integration relies on CloudFormation to manage AWS resrouces as an atomic operation.
This document describes the mapping between compose application model and AWS components
## Overview
This diagram shows compose model and on same line AWS components that get created as equivalent resources
```
+----------+ +-------------+ +-------------------+
| Project | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Cluster | . . . . . . . | LoadBalancer |
+-+--------+ +-------------+ +-------------------+
|
| +----------+ +-------------++-------------------+ +-------------------+
+----+ Service | . . . . . . . . . . | Service || TaskDefinition | | TargetGroup |
| +--+-------+ +-------------++-------------------+-+ +-------------------+
| | | TaskRole |
| | +-------------------+-+
| | x-aws-role, x-aws-policies . . . . . . . . | TaskExecutionRole |
| | +-------------------+
| | +---------+
| +--+ Deploy |
| | +---------+ +-------------------+
| | x-aws-autoscaling . . . . . . | ScalableTarget |
| | +-------------------+---+
| | | ScalingPolicy |
| | +-------------------+-+
| | | AutoScalingRole |
| | +-------------------+
| |
| | +---------+ +-------------+ +-------------------+
| +--+ Ports | . . . . . . . | IngressRule +-----+ | Listener |
| | +---------+ +-------------+ | +-------------------+
| | |
| | +---------+ +---------------+ +------------------+
| +--+ Secrets | . . . . . . . | InitContainer | |TaskExecutionRole |
| | +---------+ +---------------+ +------------+-----+
| | | |
| | +---------+ | |
| +--+ Volumes | | |
| | +---------+ | |
| | | |
| | +---------------+ | | +-------------------+
| +--+ DeviceRequest | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | . . . . | . . . | CapacityProvider |
| +---------------+ | | +-------------------+--------+
| | | | AutoscalingGroup |
| +------------+ +---------------+ | | +---------------------+
+---+ Networks | . . . . . . . . . | SecurityGroup +---+ | | LaunchConfiguration |
| +------------+ +---------------+ | +---------------------+
| |
| +------------+ +---------------+ |
+---+ Secret | . . . . . . . . . | Secret +--------------+
+------------+ +---------------+
```
Each compose application service is mapped to an ECS `Service`. A `TaksDefinition` is created according to compose definition.
Actual mapping is constrained by both Cloud platform and Fargate limitations. Such a `TaskDefinition` is set with a single container,
according to the compose model which doesn't offer a syntax to support sidecar containers.
An IAM Role is created and configured as `TaskRole` to grant service access to additional AWS resources when required. For this
purpose, user can set `x-aws-policies` or define a fine grained `x-aws-role` IAM role document.
Service's ports get mapped into security group's `IngressRule`s and load balancer `Listener`s.
Compose application whith HTTP services only (using ports 80/443 or `x-aws-protocol` set to `http`) get an Application Load Balancer
created, otherwise a Network Load Balancer is used.
A `TargetGroup` is created per service to dispatch traffic by load balancer to the matching containers
Secrets bound to a service get translated into an `InitContainer` added to the service's `TaskDefinition`. This init container is
responsible to create a `/run/secrets` file for secret to match docker secret model and make application code portable.
A `TaskExecutionRole` is also created per service, and is updated to grant access to bound secrets.
Services using a GPU (`DeviceRequest`) get the `Cluster` extended with an EC2 `CapacityProvider`, using an `AutoscalingGroup` to manage
EC2 resources allocation based on a `LaunchConfiguration`. The latter uses ECS recommended AMI and machine type for GPU.
Service to declare `deploy.x-aws-autoscaling` get a `ScalingPolicy` created targeting specified the configured CPU usage metric