Setting up Elastic Container Registry (ECR)

The following steps need to be completed for the backend, frontend, and nginx configurations. We will walk through the steps for setting-up the backend, but the configuration is similar for the frontend and nginx. These instructions are incomplete.

• Click Create repository
• Give the repository a name. Ex: jarvis-backend
• Leave Tag immutability and Image scan settings Disabled
• Click Create repository
• Copy the URI that was created to the buildspec-backend.yml in the master file directory, replacing the placeholder value:

phases:
  pre_build:
    commands:
    - REPOSITORY_URI=**************REPOSITORY URL REPLACE ME******************************

• Now this code will allow us to automatically push any updated code to this repository in the future, but we need some code to start-out with.
• Follow the instructions here to get AWS Tools for PowerShell on Windows set-up and here for instructions on set-up on Linux or Mac.
• You can also download the AWS Command Line Interface, which is what I prefer and will discuss. To use cli we need to create a user that can access everything.
• Go to IAM and click add user
  • Make a username
  • Select Programmatic access
  • Now go to Permissions. I am using the following permissions:
    • AmazonEC2ContainerRegistryFullAccess
  • Copy the Access key and secret access key, this is the only time they will be given
• Using these codes we can run aws configure after installing the AWS CLI.
• Navigate to the Elastic Container Registry dashboard. Open your repository. Select View push commands. Copy and run the macOS/Linux commands

These instructions will be updated in the future to provide clearer documentation on the initial set-up.