ecs-devopslisted

Use when someone is deploying, releasing, or shipping software to Amazon ECS — phrased as "blue/green deployment on ECS", "canary deployment for my ECS service", "set up CI/CD for ECS", "GitHub Actions deploy to Fargate", "my ECS deployment is stuck", "ECS deployment circuit breaker", "ECS task sets", or "migrate off CodeDeploy blue/green". Covers strategy selection (rolling/blue-green/linear/canary), lifecycle hooks, circuit-breaker and alarm rollback, and pipelines (CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, ECR scanning) — scoped per launch type (EC2, Fargate, Managed Instances, ECS Anywhere). Trigger even if "deployment strategy" is never said — any release-safety, traffic-shifting, rollback, or pipeline decision for an ECS service qualifies. Skip for EKS/Kubernetes (use eks-* skills) and greenfield ECS architecture with no release angle (use ecs-architect for design and ecs-build for Terraform generation incl. deployment config blocks). For ECS monitoring stacks use ecs-observability; for GPU/ML on ECS use ecs-genai.
aws-samples/sample-apex-skills · ★ 37 · DevOps & Infrastructure · score 73

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# ECS DevOps — Deployment Strategies and CI/CD Advisory guidance for shipping software to Amazon ECS safely: choosing a deployment strategy (rolling, native blue/green, linear, canary), configuring failure detection and rollback (circuit breaker, CloudWatch alarms, one-click rollback), and wiring CI/CD pipelines (CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, ECR scanning). Every capability is scoped by launch type — EC2, Fargate, ECS Managed Instances, and ECS Anywhere (EXTERNAL) — because the strategy menu is not the same on each. > **The accuracy bar (non-negotiable for this skill).** ECS deployment capabilities changed rapidly between mid-2025 and mid-2026 (native blue/green Jul 2025, linear/canary Oct 2025, NLB for linear/canary Feb 2026, pause/continue May 2026, configurable circuit breaker Jul 2026). Never state a strategy/load-balancer/launch-type support combination you cannot cite to an AWS-published source — stale claims in this domain are usually *plausible but wrong*. When in doubt, defer to the live [ECS service deployment options page](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/ecs_service-options.html). ## When to Use This Skill **Activate when the user wants to:** - Pick a deployment strategy for an ECS service (rolling vs blue/green vs canary vs linear) - Configure or debug native ECS blue/green, linear, or canary deployments (lifecycle hooks, bake time, test traffic, weighted target groups) - Set up the deployment circuit breaker, CloudWatch alarm rollb