NextJS / AWS App Runner / Pulumi

This is a simple example of how to deploy a NextJS app to AWS App Runner using Pulumi with multiple environments.

Technologies

• NextJS
• AWS ECR
• AWS App Runner
• Pulumi

Prerequisites

• Pulumi CLI
• AWS CLI

How to use it

• Make sure you have the AWS CLI configured with the right credentials
• Clone this repository
• Navigate to the infra folder
• Run export AWS_PROFILE={YOUR PROFILE} on your terminal
• Apply any configuration to any environment on the infra/config.ts file.
• The appName, billing_id and region are required to be configured using pulumi config.
• Run pulumi up to deploy the infrastructure.
• You can create more environents as needed by adding more configurations to the infra/config.ts file and adding more Envs to the infra/index.ts file.

What is being deployed

• A ECR repository to store the docker image of the NextJS app
• All environments are using the same ECR repository, the image is tagged with the environment name
• A App Runner service for each environment
• Other resources like IAM roles, policies, etc

TODO

• Github action to build the Docker image and push it to ECR
• Add a custom domain to the App Runner service
• There's an issue with the environment variables on the App Runner service, it's not being set correctly