Shipping and running the Docker container on the cloud

We will rely on AWS for our cloud requirements. We will use two of AWS’s free offerings for our purpose:

• Elastic Container Registry (ECR): Here, we will store our Docker image.
• EC2: Here, we will create a Linux system to run our API Docker image.

In this section, we will focus only on ECR. Here is a high-level overview of the steps we will follow to push the Docker image to the cloud:

1. Configure AWS on the local machine.
2. Create a Docker repository on AWS ECR and push the sdd:latest image.
3. Create an EC2 instance.
4. Install dependencies on the EC2 instance.
5. Create and run the pushed Docker image in step 2, on the EC2 instance.

The code in the following sections is also summarized as a video walkthrough here: https://tinyurl.com/MCVP-FastAPI2AWS.

Let’s implement the preceding steps, starting with configuring AWS in the next section.

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