Five O'Clock Somewhere Twitter Bot

This is my first “app” hosted on an AWS ECS Cluster. It is a simple application that runs every hour, finds a region where it is currently 5PM, and posts to a Twitter account (@5OCSomewhere).

GitHub Repo

Tools Used

• AWS ECS

• Docker

• GitHub Actions (to auto run unit tests, build into docker image, upload image to AWS ECR and deploy to a ECS task definition with a cron schedule)

• Python 3.8

• Google Cloud (specifically the maps API to find the country and geolocation of a timezone)

• Twitter developer API (implemented using the python module Tweepy)

• emoji-country-flag python module

Main Learnings

• General use of ECS and the instances it creates

• Any ECS task definition should have a bridge network mode in order to connect to external IPs (not an awsvpc network mode)