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From YouTube: GitLab 13.0: AWS ECS Auto DevOps

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Mark Cesario, Solutions Architect, covering the AWS ECS Auto DevOps feature

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Oh great cool right along mark your up with ABC s, Auto DevOps. Alright, let me share here: oops I want to do that. Alright, can everybody see my slide right now looks good, looks good. Okay, great I want to notice that the picture over there is mid-april and that's no an identical way to, and second week of, May and I actually had to shovel in May. So that's you know, there's a moral there somewhere! Okay, where do you live?

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I live up in golden, but it's actually about eighty eight hundred feet out: oh wow yeah, the views are unbelievable. Okay, so and it's a plus I think okay I'm, just gonna go through this auto deploy to ECS. This is the first iteration, so be kind. I would not venture off with customers, but we do have the AWS summit coming up. June 17, so get lab. Magic may happen in next 14 days.

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I, don't know and you'll see why a lot of moving parts here so I'll go through what is ECS, AWS CCS and we'll talk about how it works. What you need to know and then the a lot and actual live demos that all in ten minutes? Okay, so this is AWS. You know I, guess reply to google kubernetes 2015.

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It came out, so it's been around for a while and integrates with everything AWS and that's one of the constants AWS only closed-source, supposedly it's a quick learning, ease-of-use Wow, and that is not true as you'll find out. So there's a lot of moving parts from cluster services. Task definition that ec2 instance, a container to V PC at al be charge move. You have to know all of that to put this together, but does work somewhat. Alright. How does it work? So? Basically, you create a task definition.

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This is this TV and this tax task definition is going get the resources, you add an ec2 instance it'll spin one up for it. If you want to do your own, then you add a container to that. You're gonna have to have a container docker container. You can provide and the APIs cluster- and this is where you take that ec2 instance with the task definition and then you add the V PC in the subnets right step. Two and three you create a service. This is kind of like the kubernetes, where it actually will.

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You know, keep on working to maintain whatever you define. So this is where it's for keeping the number of tasks and everything running. So this is where you configure the et to ec2 instance this or you have to define the ports and everything and you have to have an Al B. If you try to use classic load balancer, it's gonna bounce you over to far gate, so you're, basically stuck with a nail B. If you want to use ec2 all right, then on our side.

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So now you flip over to get lab to actually work with this once you've set all this up, then you can go over here. You can start defining these variables environment variables. The key one is this platform: will look at Auto dev out platform target if you put ECS in this, this is where auto dev ops kick in. This is where you can use auto dev ops, with this ECS you'll notice. You'll need this cluster that we define over here. You'll need the service that we define over here.

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You'll need this task definition got it, and finally, there's nice little video I've been working with idea.I 10, a 10 to figure this out he's the main contact to help make this reality, because there's some changes they'll have to do, took us a while to get this going work once these are two in product marketing, which I think he's involved with this Auto AWS summit, any questions actually wait.

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None will go on okay, one there. There is no framework, yet I think we're gonna get labs. Gonna have to make that commitment. There is no review apps that you want to do that, it's all manually. So if you run this it'll wipe out your ECS container, you have in that service. So right now, I got the joy of working with. Etienne is great to working with them, but we're just not it's not mature enough.

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Yet if you have a kubernetes instance and you even though you set the target to ECS, it's still going to use kubernetes, so I had to go, get a separate, instant, totally know kubernetes to make it so I could work on this, so it'll override that- and these are some key links which really help was an external blog that actually walked through how to set up an ACS cluster, not for the fan of heart, but it will work and we're putting in all the documentation.

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Hopefully, and the team has really been great Jason or it it's been quite a bit. I mean I, think they realize it's it's it's way less mature than they need right now, any question before you look at it live, that's good! Anybody run run into this with a customer, yet.

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Okay, I know: I haven't all right. So let's go to this project that I did have one here, but it never actually worked. So I worked with a ten to make. This work can't already see this. So this is a rails minimal, app that he had to build from scratch. You'll notice, there's no get lab. You know that's the mo file, so we are using Auto dev ops. If you go down here and you look at the what you want to call it, the not logged in.

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Let me go back and see if I can hit this guy now I can't get to that. Where is he oh shoot? Go to my slack now, I lost them and pick up this project. I should have had it queued up.

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We can okay, we've all been there. We know we know what it's not doing, yeah all right, I'm here again, so we're back and now I have mine. Okay, now I can actually do something. So I want to show you the CI CT, because this is important in this settings here.

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And if we go to variables here- and these are the ones that we're talking about so this is a TCS target. If you do not have this you're not going to get the auto dev ops, you're gonna have to have your own yeah I'm a file and do the includes, and then these guys are the connections to the service.

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The cluster definition then, within that you gotta, be careful with the ports to make all this work and we're documenting then we're in the process and Etienne and their team are working out working on that right now.

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So what will happen is that pipeline is not that pretty so I have to work on this, but this is the pipeline that is using auto dev ops, so it spins up a build, auto detects that it's a rails and it creates this build, which is you know you would expect, and the only other thing we have now is just a review app that creates this app and the big problem, and originally was that there was no way to get to this review app the trying to get AWS in the V, pcs and everything to line up you know exactly was not easy, but eventually got that to work.

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So now you have this and then it goes to a particular right now he has it gone to an environment which he hasn't set up yet so he's got to change problem here is changing the auto dev ops.

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You know you just can't make changes to the dev ops include and, of course it's not working now. Why not? Oh.

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Let me try that huh that's funny, it's not working so so. Basically, what I happen is you change the thing it will? Fire off and I use my own Google domain that we can push to in the in the PPC and the test service, whatever it is to map it. So you can see it's not customer ready at all, but they are working on it and I believe your AWS Senate coming up will force them to make a an investment to make this happen, which was better news, but that's what would hat.

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Just time check mark okay, I'm done mark hazard issue for this, where we can follow, along with the docs being developed, yeah they're, just setting that up, you can and take TN, which is great and there's a lot of eyes on it right now and Caesar product marketing group thanks, sherry.

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Thank you so much mark take.