The purpose of this project is to provide a small placeholder image with a /health HTTP endpoint for use with AWS ECS and Terraform / OpenTofu.
Since Terraform is primarily an infrastructure management tool and not an application deployment tool, coupling ECS metadata such as task definition files to Terraform makes for complex deployment scenarios. Often times we just want to have Terraform create the service and deploy new ECS task definition versions independently. Since ECS requires some kind of image to be referenced, this is where this image comes in.
| Environment Variable | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
NGINX_PORT |
Controls the port on which the server listens for requests on | 8080 |
HEALTH_PATH |
Controls the health check endpoint | /health |