Settings Cluster

Normally, the ECS cluster defaults to whatever UFO_ENV is set to by convention. For example, when UFO_ENV=production the ECS Cluster is production and when UFO_ENV=development the ECS Cluster is development. There are several ways to override this behavior. Let’s go through some examples.

CLI Override

By default, these are all the same:

ufo ship demo-web
UFO_ENV=development ufo ship demo-web # same
UFO_ENV=development ufo ship demo-web --cluster development # same

If you use a specific UFO_ENV=production, these are the same

UFO_ENV=production ufo ship demo-web
UFO_ENV=production ufo ship demo-web --cluster production # same

Override the convention by explicitly specifying the --cluster option in the CLI.

ufo ship demo-web --cluster custom-cluster # override the cluster
UFO_ENV=production ufo ship demo-web --cluster production-cluster # override the cluster

The cavaet is that you must remember to specify --cluster. A wrapper bin/deploy script could be useful here.

Environment Cluster Setting

If you don’t want to specify the --cluster option in the command repeatedly, you can configure the cluster based on the the UFO_ENV. Setting the cluster option in the settings.yml file:

development:
  cluster: dev

production:
  cluster: prod

Service Cluster Setting

Another interesting way of specifying the cluster to use is with the service_cluster option. The service_cluster option takes a Hash value. Here’s an example:

base:
  service_cluster:
    demo-web: web-fleet
    demo-worker: worker-fleet

In this example, ufo will deploy the demo-web service to the web-fleet ECS cluster and the demo-worker service to the worker-fleet ECS cluster.

Also since the service_cluster is configured in the base section, it is used for all UFO_ENV=development, UFO_ENV=production, etc.

Precendence

The precedence of the settings from highest to lowest is:

• cli option
• service_cluster service specific setting
• cluster environment setting
• UFO_ENV default convention

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