ECS Fargate Service Stack

Production Fargate Service Without the Boilerplate

Running a containerized service on ECS Fargate requires more CloudFormation than you expect — task definitions, execution roles, target groups, listener rules, log groups, and autoscaling policies. This stack gives you all of it wired together and ready to deploy your container.

What's Deployed

• ECS Cluster and Fargate task definition (CPU/memory parameterized)
• Application Load Balancer with HTTPS listener and ACM certificate
• Target tracking autoscaling on CPU and memory utilization
• Secrets Manager integration — secrets injected as environment variables at runtime
• CloudWatch Log Group with structured JSON logging config
• IAM execution role and task role with least-privilege policies
• Security groups for ALB and task with correct traffic rules

Deploying Your Container

aws cloudformation deploy --template-file fargate-service.yaml \n  --stack-name my-service \n  --parameter-overrides \n    Image=123456789.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/my-app:latest \n    DomainName=api.example.com

Included Files

• fargate-service.yaml — full CloudFormation template
• task-definition-example.json — annotated task definition reference
• README.md — parameter reference, secrets setup, scaling tuning guide