Migrating from DigitalOcean Droplets to AWS ECS (Fargate): A Zero-Downtime Technical Playbook
Understanding the Core Challenge: State and Zero Downtime Migrating from a traditional VM-based infrastructure like DigitalOcean Droplets to a container orchestration platform such as AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) with Fargate presents a significant architectural shift. The primary hurdles are managing application state (databases, persistent storage, session data) and achieving zero downtime during the transition. […]