Where is the Sample App container that the Reference Architecture deploys?

[pete0emerson]

Ref Arch Customers: Where is the “sample app” containers that EKS uses to spin up? (In ECR?) Wouldn’t those be in our repo/“shared” account? Or is there an example using a container image from ECR in the “shared” account and spinning up EKS w/ it in other accounts?

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Tracked in ticket #109161

[pete0emerson]

The AWS Sample App image is pulled directly out of dockerhub. You can see that by checking out the _envcommon/services/k8s-sample-app-frontend.hcl file (your file name will be different if you're using ECS):

...
container_image = {
    repository  = "gruntwork/aws-sample-app"
    pull_policy = "IfNotPresent"
}
...

The tag is set per environment in stage/us-east-1/stage/services/sample-app-frontend/terragrunt.hcl:

...
inputs = {
  # Configure the specific image tag to use when deploying this app. The other configurations are inherited from the
  # parent envcommon configuration.
  container_image = {
    tag = "v0.0.2"
...

Note that even though the latest tagged image in dockerhub is v0.0.5, there's a bug there that has blocked us from incrementing the tag. We're tracking that here.

Regarding deploying a container image from ECR in the shared account, see docs/04-deploy-apps.md in your Reference Architecture.