Aws Copilot

 It is a tool for developers to develop, release, and operate production-ready containerized applications on Amazon ECS. From getting started, pushing to staging and releasing to production, Copilot can help manage the entire lifecycle of your application development.

AWS Copilot is a tool in the Container Tools category of a tech stack.

Copilot creates modern application deployments by default, based on production-ready patterns that include best practices designed by ECS engineers and customers over the years.

The AWS Copilot command line interface (CLI) provides application-first, high-level commands to simplify modeling, creating, releasing, and managing production-ready containerized applications on Amazon ECS from a local development environment.

We can use Homebrew to install the cli.Installing the AWS Copilot CLI using Homebrew.

The following command is used to install the AWS Copilot CLI on your macOS or Linux system using Homebrew. 

Prior to installation, you should have Homebrew installed. 

brew install aws/tap/copilot-cli

or

sudo curl -Lo /usr/local/bin/copilot https://github.com/aws/copilot-cli/releases/download/v0.3.0/copilot-linux-v0.3.0  \  && sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/copilot \   && copilot --help

Below is the Architecture:

Copilot has three main concepts:

Application : An application is a grouping mechanism for the pieces of your system. Following Conway’s Law you would split up your components into Copilot applications that correspond to the different teams in your organization. 

For example, if you still have a small organization with a unified development team that works on a bit of everything then you can probably organize things as a single application made up out of one or more services. But if you have multiple teams, each responsible for a single group of components, and very little cross team work, then each team should have their own Copilot application.

Environment : An environment is one stage of deployment of an application. For example, you might deploy an application to a “QA” environment. 

Service: A service is a single long running code process inside a container. An application consists of one or more services. If you are using a monolithic architecture, then it’s likely each application will have just a single service. A more distributed architecture will utilize multiple services for each application. 

For example, you might have a “website” service with an internet facing load balancer, an internal “API” service that is only accessible via service discovery, and a “background worker” service that works on jobs off a queue. Together these services make up the components of a single application.