The following procedure is used to configure a Fargate ECS service with an application load Balancer:
- Create an application load balancer
- Create a task definition
- Create a service
- Configure the application load balancer with the service
- Invoke the service
First, we shall create an application load balancer:
- Open the EC2 Console in a browser by going to https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2, and select
Load Balancing
|Load Balancers
. - Click on
Create Load Balancer
, as shown in the following screenshot:
- In
Select load balancer type
, click onCreate
for theApplication Load Balancer
, as shown in the following screenshot. An application load balancer is used forHTTP
/HTTPS
request protocols.