Deploying Metabase on AWS ECS (Fargate) with PostgreSQL (RDS)
The article provides a guide on deploying Metabase, an open-source business intelligence tool, on AWS using ECS with Fargate and connecting it to a PostgreSQL database on RDS. It outlines the steps needed to create a fully functional data application in the cloud, emphasizing the importance of application and database architecture. The project teaches critical real-world concepts such as containerized workloads and secure service-to-service communication.
- ▪The project involves deploying Metabase using containers on Amazon ECS with Fargate.
- ▪A PostgreSQL database is created using Amazon RDS and connected to the Metabase application.
- ▪The guide highlights the importance of networking and security configurations for communication between services.
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