Deploying a simple Pokemon REST API to AWS ECS

Dockerizing and deploying a simple API store, where you can GET and POST Pokemon seems like a fun way to learn about the basics of ECS and AWS services!

All code can be found here.

Prerequisites:

• Basic understanding of docker
• Install and configure the aws-cli

Let’s first create a simple DynamoDB database.

First create a new file called “create-table.json”, and paste in the json data below. We’re setting up a table with just two attributes (pokemon name, and pokemon type)

{
 “TableName”: “Pokemon”,
 “KeySchema”: [
 { “AttributeName”: “name”, “KeyType”: “HASH” },
 { “AttributeName”: “type”, “KeyType”: “RANGE” }
 
 ],
 “AttributeDefinitions”: [
 { “AttributeName”: “name”, “AttributeType”: “S” },
 { “AttributeName”: “type”, “AttributeType”: “S” }
 ],
 “ProvisionedThroughput”: {
 “ReadCapacityUnits”: 5,
 “WriteCapacityUnits”: 5
 }…