Summary

We started this chapter by understanding the relevance that containers have in modern software applications. They not only speed up the development velocity but also adhere to the microservices patterns and twelve-factor design principles, which are an inherent part of your software artifacts. In case you had not been exposed to containers yet, we started with a basic understanding of how they work and then moved on to outlining the constructs of Docker, a container runtime environment.

With the foundations covered, we discussed the need for a container orchestrator system when running production workloads in the cloud. AWS ECS is an opinionated offering from AWS that simplifies operating containers in an enterprise-grade environment. Next, we dived deeper into Amazon ECS and the native constructs used by the service to define logical components in your application stack. Of course, security is paramount when deploying resources in the cloud. So, we discussed some best practices...