Workshop

Development and Hosting using Docker, CI/CD, and AWS ECS

Are you interested in deploying your application in a container and running it in the cloud but aren't sure where to get started? Maybe you have never deployed an application to the cloud our used Docker before. This workshop will have something for everyone interested in cloud-based container deployments.

This intensive workshop will cover lots of topics as we take blank git repository and finish with a docker based application running on AWS Fargate and using automated CI/CD. As bonus material we will even cover migrations, local database development, and some basic networking. The best part is that by the end of this workshop you will have your own repository to use as reference or as a template moving forward!

Those who choose to attend this workshop should be familiar with basic git usage. You will also need a GitHub account and AWS account, preferably with an active free plan (if you want to deploy your code). Expect this workshop to move quickly and cover a lot of information. We will have multiple people to lead the workshop and be available to help if anyone gets stuck as well as a targeted Q/A time at the end.

Objective

By the end of this workshop, users will have an understanding, including hands-on training, of how to successfully build and deploy a web application using Docker and AWS.

Audience

Application developers who are looking to understand how to evolve their development process to take advantage of modern best practices of using Docker containers, CI/CD, and cloud hosting.

Prerequisites

The following are the workshop requirements for this workshop:

• A laptop computer with suitable resources and the following packages installed
• Java 11-15
• CommandBox
• A working CFML repository with database connectivity to test deployments
• A GitHub account to create packages and test CI/CD actions
• An AWS account to provision and deploy infrastructure
• Docker