AWS ECR Deployment

Practical examples and patterns for typical AWS ECR deployment workflows

Configure AWS CLI

Ensure you have the necessary permissions to create and push to the ECR repository. Using Helix with ECR will NOT work unless you have the necessary permissions via the AWS CLI.

AWS CLI Documentation

# Configure AWS credentials
aws configure

Deploy to ECR

1. Add ECR instance

   helix add ecr --name staging
   

   If you don’t have a project setup, you can do so with helix init ecr.

2. Push to ECR

   helix push staging 
   

   This will:

   • Create ECR repository if needed
   • Authenticate Docker with ECR
   • Tag and push the image
3. Deploy to ECS/EKS

   Use the pushed image in your container orchestration:

   # ECS task definition
   image: 123456789.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/my-app:latest