Fides Documentation – Ethyca

Production Terraform Deployment

This guide covers deploying Fides using Terraform for automated infrastructure provisioning on AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS).

For Kubernetes deployments, see Production Kubernetes Deployment. For Docker configuration options, see Docker Installation.

Overview Permalink for this section

The Fides team maintains a Terraform module (opens in a new tab) to assist in deploying Fides to AWS ECS with all required infrastructure components.

The Terraform module provisions:

AWS ECS cluster and task definitions
Application Load Balancer
RDS PostgreSQL database
ElastiCache Redis cluster
S3 bucket for storage
VPC and networking resources
IAM roles and security groups

Prerequisites Permalink for this section

Terraform (opens in a new tab) installed locally
AWS account with appropriate permissions
AWS credentials configured locally
Basic understanding of Terraform and AWS services

Installation Permalink for this section

1. Reference the Terraform Module Permalink for this section

Create a new Terraform configuration that references the Fides module:

module "fides" {
  source = "github.com/ethyca/fides-terraform//fides-aws-ecs"

# Required variables
  aws_region = "us-east-1"

# Add your configuration here
  # See module README for all available options
}

2. Configure Module Variables Permalink for this section

Customize the deployment by setting module variables. Common configuration options include:

module "fides" {
  source = "github.com/ethyca/fides-terraform//fides-aws-ecs"

aws_region          = "us-east-1"
  environment         = "production"
  fides_image_tag     = "latest"

# Database configuration
  db_instance_class   = "db.t3.medium"

# Redis configuration
  redis_node_type     = "cache.t3.micro"

# ECS configuration
  fides_cpu           = 1024
  fides_memory        = 2048
  fides_desired_count = 2
}