Blog post for deploying to AWS Blogs (Nov 24)

Proposal

This blog post will review the steps we took to add support for deploying to AWS and calls the wider community to contribute for other cloud provider support as well.

The pain: Deploying to the cloud should b easy and boring. No matter what tech stack your are using or what size your company is, the deployment process is the same, so why not automate it?

Steps:

1. Build a docker image to connect to the AWS CLI - allowing you to perform any AWS command in CLI directly from the .gitlab-ci.yml template
2. Create an image that creates a task definition in ECS
3. Connect both images to create a full .gitlab-ci.yml template that deploys to ECS (uses Auto-Build template)
4. Connect the template to AutoDevOps - expanding the users who can use AutoDevOps to also non k8s users that deploy to AWS
5. Expand Support to Fargate
6. Create docker images for:
   • gl-cloudformation create-stack
   • gl-ec2 push-to-s3
   • gl-ec2 deploy-to-ec2
7. Create a .gitlab-ci.yml template that uses the docker images to deploy to EC2
8. Connect the template to AutoDevOps (not done yet)
9. Create a template to deploy to S3 (not done yet)
10. Connect the template to AutoDevOps (not done yet)

/cc @ebaque

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