Many products still run as a docker-compose file on one server, or a small Swarm cluster. It works until the server needs patching, the disk fills or traffic doubles. How the pieces of a compose file map to ECS, where state should go, and how ECS Express Mode and ECS Gateway make the move small.
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Move state first: database to RDS, files to S3, cache to ElastiCache, with the old server pointing at the new ones.
Push images to ECR from CI instead of building on the server.
Create the ECS services and run them alongside the old server behind a weighted DNS record or load balancer.
Shift traffic, watch, and switch the old server off.
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