copilot-cli: Release v1.14.0

⚡️ Features and enhancements

• Enable Network Load Balancer (#3142)

  You can enable Network Load Balancer for your Load-Balanced Web Service simply by adding nlb to your manifest, for example:

  nlb:
     port: 80/tcp # or tls

  You can then access your service through Network Load Balancer via its DNS name.

  Expand for additional NLB configuration

  If your application is associated with a domain, then Copilot will give your service a default alias of <service>-nlb.<environment>.<app>.<domain>. Similar to today's http field, you can take advantage of the alias field to change this behavior:

  nlb:
      port: 80/tcp
      alias: ["example.com", "v1.example.com"]

  In this way, your service will be accessible through "example.com:80" and "v1.example.com:80" with tcp protocol.

  Moreover, you can also enable TLS termination by

  nlb:
     port: 443/tls

  It is also possible to use only the Network Load Balancer - without the Application Load Balancer - for your Load-Balanced Web Service:

    http: false
    
    nlb:
       port: 80/tcp

• Support external files for environment variables (#3138)

  More efficiently use and reuse multiple env vars by keeping them in a .env file. In your workload manifest:

  env_file: <path>

  You can specify different env vars per environment with env overrides:

  env_file: <test path>
  environment:
    prod:
      env_file: <prod path>

• Provide the option to use CloudWatch Container Insights (#3126)

  When creating a new environment, use the new --container-insights flag to collect those metrics:
  copilot env init --container-insights

• Check if associated domains are not registered with Route 53 and recommend actions accordingly (#3081)

• Allow more than two availability zones when configuring the default environment in copilot env init (#3131)

• Rename pipeline update to pipeline deploy (#3154)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Error out when trying to initialize preexisting environments (#3088) or services/jobs (#3116)
• Enable the --force flag with copilot svc deploy when Auto Scaling is set (#3127)
• Detect ARM-based CodeBuild images in the pipeline manifest and automatically change the build environment type (#3190)
• Exit the pipeline build stage if workload manifests don't pass validations (#3080)

❤️ Contributions

Thank you, contributors!

• @flemzord (#3126, #3128)
• @pcolazurdo (#3190)
• @morugu (#3174, #3185)
• @hkford (#3194)

copilot-cli: Release v1.13.0

⚡️ Features and enhancements

• Support building and running Fargate ARM tasks (#3051)

  You can now update the manifest file for Load Balanced Web Services, Backend Services, Worker Services, Scheduled Jobs, and one-off tasks to build and run ARM containers on Fargate:

  platform: linux/arm64

• Add gRPC support for Load Balanced Web Services (#3026)
• Enable customizable parameters for addons/ templates (#2990)

  You can now pass any resource attribute created in the service or job stack down to your addon templates.
  To learn more check out the docs!

• Add --build-context flag to copilot task run to specify the Docker context directory (#3046)
• Inject default Copilot environment variables and enable container dependency for FireLens sidecar container (#3002, #3055)
• Export the public route table ID in the environment stack to support S3 VPC endpoints (#2987)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Update the "Build" stage's buildspec.yml of your pipelines to build and push images with a separate tag per environment (#2970)

  If you are applying environment overrides for the image.build field in the manifest, we recommend re-generating the buildspec by running copilot pipeline init.

• Let CloudFormation auto-generate the S3 bucket name on storage init -t S3 to avoid name collisions (#2974)
• Don't error if AWS CodeCommit repository URIs don't have a region (#3019)

❤️ Contributions

Thank you, contributors!

• @mather (#2970)
• @seiichi1101 (#3017)
• @nbarrera (#3039)

copilot-cli: Release v1.12.0

⚡️ Features and enhancements

• Support building and running Windows containers (#2934)

  Copilot automatically detects your Windows machine, builds your Windows-based container image, and leverages brand-new Fargate support for Windows to run your application on ECS.
  The manifest for a Windows service includes:

  platform: windows/amd64

  Read the blog post!

• Enable environment variable substitution in manifests (#2917)

  For example, you can use the TAG environment variable from your shell:

  image:
    location: id.dkr.ecr.zone.amazonaws.com/svc-name:${TAG}

• Allow worker services to publish (#2903)
• Inject default Copilot environment variables in sidecars (#2901)
• Surface an error if an app has no existing workloads during pipeline deployment (#2946)
• Enable colors on Windows (#2896)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Validate manifests with environment overrides applied (#2924)
• Include domain certificate for successful environment deletion (#2897)
• Build App Runner service images as AMD on ARM machines (#2955)
• Use env account IDs instead of app account IDs for SNS topic ARNs (#2956)
• Allow dashes in worker service topic names (#2903)

❤️ Contributions

Thank you, contributors!

• @mattn (#2896)
• @isleys (#2919)

copilot-cli: Release v1.11.0

⚡️ Features and enhancements

• Improved manifest.yml file validation to error early on invalid inputs (#2881)
• Allow autoscaling for Worker Services (#2827, #2813, #2804)

  By indicating the acceptable queue_delay in your manifest, you can tell Copilot when to scale your number of tasks up or down.

   count:
     range: 1-10
     queue_delay:  # Should result in a 900-msg backlog per Fargate task.
       acceptable_latency: 15m  # Acceptable amount of time that a message can sit in the queue.
       msg_processing_time: 1s  # Average amount of time required to process an SQS message. 

  To learn more, see the documentation.

• Enable StartCommand configuration for App Runner workloads (#2844)

  App Runner (Request-Driven Web Service) manifests now include an optional command field to override the Docker image's default start command.
  To learn more, see the documentation.

• Support OutputArtifactFormat specification for pipeline sources (#2830)

  Previously, Copilot left this field unspecified, so it defaulted to CODE_ZIP. We have added the output_artifact_format field to the pipeline manifest to enable the CODEBUILD_CLONE_REF format, unblocking repositories with git modules.
  To learn more, see the documentation.

• Allow container healthchecks for sidecars (#2822)

  Just as you can for main containers, you can now also add healthchecks for sidecar containers. Fields are: command, interval, retries, timeout, and start_period.

   sidecars:
     nginx:
       healthcheck:
         command: ["CMD-SHELL", "curl -f http://localhost:8080 || exit 1"]
         interval: 10s

• Add flexibility to log retention (#2834)

  Now you can decide how many days your logs are retained; just set the number in your workload manifest. (The default is thirty days.)

   logging:
     retention: 90

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Error out if AWS credentials are invalid (#2816, #2819)
• Build container images targeting AMD64 architectures even on ARM machines (#2814)
• Prompt for missing custom env resources when some are passed with flags (#2784)
• Make publish.allowed_workers field optional (#2821)

❤️ Contributions

Thank you, contributors!

• @toshitanian (#2833)

copilot-cli: Release v1.10.1

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix copilot app init for Windows by adapting to go:embed changes (#2807)

copilot-cli: Release v1.10.0

⚡️ Features and enhancements

• Support publish/subscribe architecture pattern for asynchronous communication between your services (#2550)

  All existing service patterns now support an optional publish field in the manifest to broadcast events with SNS topics:

   publish:
  - name: orders
    allowed_workers: [receipt-worker]

  A new "Worker Service" pattern (SNS -> SQS -> ECS on Fargate) is introduced to copilot svc init to consume events from the topics.
  To learn more see the documentation.

• Allow overriding Amazon ECS Task Definition fields with the new taskdef_overrides field (#2588)

  You can now add or update any Task Definition fields that in the manifest of Load Balanced Web Services, Backend Services, Worker Services, and Scheduled Jobs. Here is an example:

   taskdef_overrides:
   - path: ContainerDefinitions[0].Ulimits[-]
     value:
        Name: "cpu"
        SoftLimit: 1024
        HardLimit: 2048

  To learn more see the documentation.

• Add a --force flag to copilot deploy, copilot svc deploy, copilot job deploy (#2736)

  Without the --force flag, Copilot returns a CloudFormation empty change set error. Now, you can run the deploy commands with the flag to force a new deployment.

• Support multiple aliases for a Load Balanced Web Service (#2638)

  http:  # String version.
    alias: example.com
  http:  # Alternatively, as an array of strings.
    alias: ["example.com", "v1.example.com"]

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Apply environment overrides for efs, healthcheck, alias, range fields in manifests (#2745)
• Skip validating environment name if application name cannot be retrieved (#2781)
• The "Build" stage of CodePipeline no longer throws an error if the pipeline manifest includes only a subset of your environments (#2715)
• Return an error instead of a segmentation fault if there is no image.port field specified for Request-Driven Web Services (#2712)

❤️ Contributions

Thank you for the contributions!

• @jlucas91 (#2761)

copilot-cli: Release v1.9.0

⚡️ Features and enhancements

• Introduce custom domain names for App Runner workloads (#2664)

  We now support the alias field in Request-Driven Web Service manifests, too!
  You can specify a friendly URL instead of the default App Runner-generated endpoint.

• Allow multiple environments per VPC (#2515)

  You can now import the same VPC multiple times when running env init.
  This change does not disrupt existing environments.

• Enable building images with ARM hosts (#2636)

  If you're on ARM architecture, your images will automatically target the linux/amd64 platform at build time.
  A new manifest field, platform, shows the value to be passed with the --platform flag.

• Implement the grace_period and deregistration_delay manifest fields (#2576)

  You may now customize these attributes in your Load Balanced Web Service manifest.

  http:
    healthcheck:
      grace_period: 30s    # How long to ignore unhealthy healthchecks after a deployment. 
    deregistration_delay: 45s   # How long to wait before deregistering the tasks.

• Add the credential parameter for private repositories (#2582)

  Store the credentials to your private repo using AWS Secrets Manager, then pass them into your container definition using this new manifest field.

• Support entrypoint and command overrides for sidecars (#2592)

  Override the default values for these config fields in your manifest--not just for your main container, but now for your sidecars, too.

• Enable fish completion (#2517)

  Install completion for your fish shell with copilot completion fish.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Allow the default domain in the alias field (#2607)

❤️ Contributions

Thank you for the contributions!

• @chenrui333 (#2517)
• @rverpillot (#2582)
• @BuddySpike (#2592)

copilot-cli: Release v1.8.3

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Preserve default allowed_source_ips with env overrides (#2543)

  The default allowed_source_ips entry was ignored if a user specified environment override for http but without allowed_source_ips. This fix ensures we retain the default value if the field is not overridden.

• Re-running copilot init should work if an application was already initialized with a domain name (#2562)
• Sidecar containers no longer set the port to be 80 if it's not specified. Instead if port is not present we leave it blank (#2565)
• Revert the spinner library so that the text gets replaced when the deployments are done instead of creating a new line (#2568)
• Running env init in applications with a domain name and multiple AWS accounts should now succeed (#2567)

copilot-cli: Release v1.8.2

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Support creating applications in the China partition (BJS, ZHY) (#2468)

  Note that pipeline commands and Request-Driven Web Service won't be available until AWS CodePipeline and AWS App Runner are supported in the China partition.

• Validate values for http.alias when running copilot svc package or copilot deploy (#2482)
• Don't throw an error if the addons/ directory is empty when running copilot deploy (#2508)
• Skip deleting validation records when using more than one http.alias for Load Balanced Web Services (#2513)
• Ensure custom resources created with Copilot retain the physical ID on failures (#2524, #2536)

  Copilot managed custom resources now always return the same physical ID ensuring that stack update failures rollback without any side effects.

❤️ Contributions

Thank you for the contributions!

• @BuddySpike (#2508)
• @shgtkshruch (#2529)
• @kangere (#2523)

copilot-cli: Release v1.8.1

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Apply environment overrides when running svc package and job deploy (#2476)

  This ensures that the appropriate variables and secrets are applied to each environment with pipeline deployments

• Preserve default values for entrypoint and command when those manifest fields are empty (#2490)
• Enable the importing of public subnets with MapPublicIPOnLaunch set to false (default) (#2457)
• Reduce partition and sort key minimum lengths from 3 to 1 when defining DynamoDB tables via storage init (#2477)

❤️ Contributions

Thank you for the contributions!

• @toshitanian (#2470)
• @hkford (#2473)
• @shgtkshruch (#2485)