Option to disable A record creation in ECS patterns for private LBs

[hencrice]

Give customers an option to disable A record creation in ECS pattern when the load balancers are private.

Use Case

Some customers may not want an A record to be created when their ECS/Fargate services are behind private load balancer.

Proposed Solution

Our initial attempt was: #6895, which straight out disabled A record creation whenever the load balancer is private. However, turned out that multiple customers actually rely on such a behavior:

• NetworkLoadBalancedFargateService.domainName not generating AWS::Route53::RecordSet #6992
• ApplicationLoadBalancedEc2Service does not create domain since 1.31.0 #7148

To satisfy both groups of customers, we can potentially add a new boolean flag to all the following interfaces:

• aws-cdk/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-ecs-patterns/lib/base/network-load-balanced-service-base.ts

  Line 41 in d7c40c5

  readonly publicLoadBalancer?: boolean;

• aws-cdk/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-ecs-patterns/lib/base/application-load-balanced-service-base.ts

  Line 43 in d7c40c5

  readonly publicLoadBalancer?: boolean;

• aws-cdk/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-ecs-patterns/lib/base/application-multiple-target-groups-service-base.ts

  Line 266 in d7c40c5

  readonly publicLoadBalancer?: boolean;

• aws-cdk/packages/@aws-cdk/aws-ecs-patterns/lib/base/network-multiple-target-groups-service-base.ts

  Line 203 in d7c40c5

  readonly publicLoadBalancer?: boolean;

The flag can be named as createARecord with default value true to be backward-compatible.

Other

Customer ask: #6702
Initial incorrect attempt: #6895

Please +1 if you would like to see this feature implemented!

This is a 🚀 Feature Request

[hencrice]

Temporarily close this until we finalize the wording

[konstantinj]

I think this is not a good idea. If you don't want the behaviour ECS patterns is producing simply you the bare ECS classes instead. There are more behaviours that could be controlled in ECS patterns - it's nonsense to make all of them configurable. For most customers the ECS patterns are just fine as they are.

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