Getting Started with Amazon Elastic Container Service using Fargate

Lab Details

This lab will guide you through the steps of creating an Amazon ECS Sample App.

Fargate will be used to configure Service, Task Definition, and Cluster.

Duration: 30 minutes

AWS Region: US East, N. Virginia us-east-1

Introduction

What is a Docker?

Docker is a tool that makes it easier to create, deploy and run applications using containers.

Containers allow developers to package an application with all the components it requires, such as libraries, and then deploy it as a single package.

This will allow the application to run on any Linux machine, regardless of any custom settings that it might have.

What is Amazon ECS?

Amazon ECS manages containers, allowing developers to run applications in the cloud and not have to set up an environment for the code.

Developers with AWS accounts can deploy and manage scalable apps that run on groups or servers called clusters. This is done through application program interface calls and task definitions.

Amazon ECS allows developers to use Docker containers to host simple websites or run complex distributed microservices that require thousands.