AWS ECS

Consul can be deployed on AWS ECS (Elastic Container Service) using our official Terraform modules.

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.

Getting Started

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

• The Serverless Consul Service Mesh with ECS and HCP learn guide shows how to use Terraform to run Consul service mesh applications on ECS with managed Consul servers running in HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP).
• The Service Mesh with ECS and Consul on EC2 learn guide shows how to use Terraform to run Consul service mesh applications on ECS with Consul servers running on EC2 instances.
• The Consul with Dev Server on Fargate example installation deploys a sample application in ECS using the Fargate launch type.
• The Consul with Dev Server on EC2 example installation deploys a sample applciation in ECS using the EC2 launch type.

See the Requirements and the full Install Guide when you’re ready to install Consul on an existing ECS cluster and add existing tasks to the service mesh.