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We haven't had any problems, but our workload is mostly async background work. Our CI pushes master when it passes, running a simple script to push to ECR with a git SHA tag, update the task to use the latest image, and then update the service to the latest task definition. It takes 2 lines of bash to update the task definition, and 2 lines to run the AWS commands.

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Yeah for the standard vanilla case it's ok. As soon as you hit a certain scale or need to do anything non-standard it becomes much harder to work with.

Really? At the last company we had like a 200 lines PowerShell script for all of that.

You can do all of it by pushing the container to ECR, tagging it with your build number and running CloudFormation. You pass the build number in as a parameter and you specify your image as

  image: !subst “image:${Tag}”

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