Creating the service template bundle

So far, we have learned how to create an environment template bundle. In this section, we will learn how to create a service template bundle and register it with AWS Proton. After that, we will learn how to create a service and service instance that will be deployed in both the staging and dev environments.

Writing the service template

At the beginning of this chapter, we provided a brief overview of the service template. The service template includes two sub-templates – one is an application-service related file that contains information regarding the task definition, load balancer target group, alarms, and so on, while the other sub-template is a build and deploy pipeline template that includes definitions related to developer tools such as CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline. Using a service template, we can create multiple Proton services (that refer to their respective application branches), which will build the application...