+++ title = "Part 1: Deploying demo app" chapter = false weight = 100 +++ ## Deploying the Wild Rydes demo app In this step of the workshop you will create and deploy the *Wild Rydes* demo app. The demo app lets you order rides from... unicorns!  The full architecture for the ecs demo app looks like this:  The CloudFormation template sets up a basic infrastructure to deploy an ECS task that runs a web server to demonstrate various problems that can arise in a production environment. The template provisions the following resources: - A DynamoDB table for storing data related to unicorn rides - An IAM user, policy, and access key with permissions to read and write to the DynamoDB table - A VPC with a public subnet and an internet gateway to allow access to the ECS task - An ECS cluster with container insights enabled - A CloudWatch Logs group to store logs from the ECS task - A security group to enable access to the ECS task over port 80 - An IAM role and task definition for the ECS task, which runs a web server using a public Docker image - An ECS service that deploys the task in the cluster and configures its networking The ECS task will run a web server that serves traffic on port 80, and the `LUMIGO_TRACER_TOKEN` and other environment variables are passed as parameters to the task definition. {{%notice warning%}} This CloudFormation template is intended to be used only as a demo app to showcase problems that can arise in a production environment and how to debug them. {{%/notice%}}