AWS App Runner is an AWS service that provides a fast, simple, and cost-effective way to deploy from source code or a container image directly to a scalable and secure web application in the AWS Cloud. You don't need to learn new technologies, decide which compute service to use, or know how to provision and configure AWS resources.

App Runner connects directly to your code or image repository. It provides an automatic integration and delivery pipeline with fully managed operations, high performance, scalability, and security.

This project contains a sample AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) template for deploying an AWS App Runner service. This template showes how to add a custom image for AWS App Runner service to use without having to pre-push the image to Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) or another container library. This makes use of the in-built apprunner.Source.fromAsset method. The custom image used is a simple hello world Node Js application. This project also provides an example of how to pass an environment variable to the image. Note that the image can be changed to other images that suit your use case by changing the codes found in the src directory.