Shippable used Amazon ECS to improve Continuous Delivery

Shippable provides a platform for hosted testing, continuous integration, and deployment from GitHub and Bitbucket repositories. It has two parts, the first one is continuous integration, and the second is continuous delivery.

Combining different services, the Shippable platform allows developers to build, test, and deploy applications. Shippable built the CI/CD platform with a microservice architecture using Docker containers on Amazon EC2. However, the docker solution was hard to scale and had configuration issues.

The engineering team at Shippable spent 60-80% of their time maintaining the infrastructure and container orchestration. Apart from the infrastructure management, monitoring extensive logs and managing Elasticsearch was time-consuming.

Shippable considered several open-source orchestration tools like Apache Mesos and Kubernetes. However, these tools were not the right fit as they also needed significant engineering time. So, Shippable chose Amazon ECS.