AWS ECS and Jenkins Build Pipeline at Pune DevOps Meet

Gave a talk and live demo at the Pune DevOps meetup on building a CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins, EC2, and AWS ECS. WhiteHedge Technologies hosted the event.

ECS was brand new at the time. Most people in the room hadn't touched containers in production yet, let alone a managed orchestrator. The demo walked through the full flow: code push to GitHub, Jenkins picks it up, builds a Docker image, pushes to ECR, and triggers an ECS service update with a new task definition. When it works, it's smooth. When it doesn't — and live demos have a way of not working — you learn a lot about ECS error messages in front of an audience.

The Pune DevOps community has always been good about showing up for hands-on content. Nobody wants to sit through 45 minutes of slides about "the future of DevOps." They want to see a terminal, a deploy, and ideally something going wrong so they can learn from the recovery. That's the kind of talk I enjoy giving.