How to Structure GitHub Repos for ECS Fargate Using Terraform & Github Actions

In this article, we’ll explore how to deploy three microservices on an Amazon ECS cluster using Terraform for infrastructure creation and GitHub Actions for deployment automation. We’ll leverage ECS Service Discovery to enable seamless communication between microservices. Additionally, we’ll design an efficient repository structure and demonstrate how to create the infrastructure effectively.

Required AWS Infrastructure

To deploy an application on ECS, the following AWS resources are essential:

• VPC (Virtual Private Cloud): Provides networking for your resources, with public and private subnets for segregation.
• ECS Cluster: Manages and schedules tasks for services. A single ECS cluster per environment is sufficient for cost-effectiveness and manageability.
• ECS Services: Ensure high availability and scaling of microservices running in ECS.
• Application Load Balancer (ALB): Distributes incoming traffic to ECS…