AWS ECS

You can deploy Consul service mesh applications to AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) using either our official Terraform modules or by manually configuring the task definition.

Service Mesh

Using Consul on AWS ECS enables you to add your ECS tasks to the service mesh and take advantage of features such as zero-trust-security, intentions, observability, traffic policy, and more. You can also connect service meshes so that services deployed across your infrastructure environments can communicate.

Architecture

Consul on ECS Architecture

Consul on ECS follows an architecture similar to other platforms, but each ECS task is a Consul node. An ECS task runs the user application container(s), as well as a Consul client container for control plane communication and an Envoy sidecar proxy container to facilitate data plane communication for Consul Connect.

For a detailed architecture overview, see the Architecture page.

Getting Started

There are several ways to get started with Consul with ECS.

Refer to the Requirements and use one of the following sets of instructions when you’re ready to install Consul on an existing ECS cluster and add tasks to the service mesh: