AWS App Runner is a new service from Amazon Web Services that allows you to go from code to a scalable, secure web app in minutes.
Containers have become the default way that I package my web applications. Although I love the speed, productivity, and consistency that containers provide, there is one aspect of the container development workflow that I do not like: the lengthy routine I go through when I deploy a container image for the first time.
You might recognize this routine: setting up a load balancer, configuring the domain, setting up TLS, creating a CI/CD pipeline, and deploying to a container service.
Over the years, I have tweaked my workflow and I now have a boilerplate AWS Cloud Development Kit project that I use, but it has taken me a long time to get to this stage. Although this boilerplate project is great for larger applications, it does feel like a lot of work when all I want to do is deploy and scale a single container image.
At AWS, we have a number of services that provide granular control over your containerized application, but many customers have asked if AWS can handle the configuration and operations of their container environments. They simply want to point to their existing code or container repository and have their application run and scale in the cloud without having to configure and manage infrastructure services.
