Setup Ufo

The easiest way to create this ufo folder is by using the ufo init command. For this tutorial we’ll tongueroo/demo-ufo which is a small test sinatra app. Let’s run the command in our newly cloned project.

git clone https://github.com/tongueroo/demo-ufo.git
cd demo-ufo
ufo init --app=demo --image=tongueroo/demo-ufo

You should see output similiar to this:

$ ufo init --app=demo --image=tongueroo/demo-ufo
Setting up ufo project...
      create  .env
      create  .ufo/params.yml
      create  .ufo/settings.yml
      create  .ufo/settings/cfn/default.yml
      create  .ufo/settings/network/default.yml
      create  .ufo/task_definitions.rb
      create  .ufo/templates/fargate.json.erb
      create  .ufo/templates/main.json.erb
      create  .ufo/variables/base.rb
      create  .ufo/variables/development.rb
      create  .ufo/variables/production.rb
   identical  Dockerfile
      create  bin/deploy
      append  .gitignore
      create  .dockerignore
Starter ufo files created.
Congrats 🎉 You have successfully set up ufo for your project.
$

The ufo init command generated a few starter ufo files for you. The standard directory structure of the ufo folder looks like this:

.ufo
├── output
├── settings.yml
├── task_definitions.rb
├── templates
|   └── main.json.erb
└── variables
    ├── base.rb
    ├── production.rb
    └── development.rb

The explanation of the folders and files were covered in detailed earlier at Structure.

Settings

Take a look at the settings.yml file and notice that it contains some default configuration settings so you do not have to type out these options repeatedly for some of the ufo commands.

# More info: http://ufoships.com/docs/settings/
base:
  image: tongueroo/demo-ufo
  # clean_keep: 30 # cleans up docker images on your docker server.
  # ecr_keep: 30 # cleans up images on ECR and keeps this remaining amount. Defaults to keep all.
  # defaults when an new ECS service is created by ufo ship

development:
  # cluster: dev # uncomment if you want the cluster name be other than the default
                 # the default is to match UFO_ENV.  So UFO_ENV=development means the ECS
                 # cluster will be name development
  # When you have AWS_PROFILE set to one of these values, ufo will switch to the desired
  # environment. This prevents you from switching AWS_PROFILE, forgetting to
  # also switch UFO_ENV, and accidentally deploying to production vs development.
  # aws_profile: dev_profile1

production:
  # cluster: prod

The image value is the name that ufo will use as a base portion of the name to generate a Docker image name, it should not include the tag portion.

The other settings are optional. You can learn more about them at Settings.

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