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Docker on Amazon Web Services

You're reading from Docker on Amazon Web Services Build, deploy, and manage your container applications at scale

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788626507

Length 822 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Containerization

Author (1):

Justin Menga

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Container and Docker Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

2. Building Applications Using Docker

3. Getting Started with AWS

4. Introduction to ECS

5. Publishing Docker Images Using ECR

6. Building Custom ECS Container Instances

7. Creating ECS Clusters

8. Deploying Applications Using ECS

9. Managing Secrets

10. Isolating Network Access

11. Managing ECS Infrastructure Life Cycle

12. ECS Auto Scaling

13. Continuously Delivering ECS Applications

14. Fargate and ECS Service Discovery

15. Elastic Beanstalk

16. Docker Swarm in AWS

17. Elastic Kubernetes Service

18. Assessments

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Configuring Application Load Balancers

We have established an ECS cluster and created an application database to store application data, and we next need to create the frontend infrastructure that will service connections from the outside world to our Docker applications.

A popular approach within AWS to provide such infrastructure is to leverage the Elastic Load Balancing service, which provides a number of different options for load balancing connections to your applications:

Classic Elastic Load Balancers: The original AWS load balancer that supports Layer 4 (TCP) load balancing. In general, you should use either the newer Application Load Balancer or the network load balancer, which collectively provide all of the existing functionality of classic load balancers and much more.
Application Load Balancers: An HTTP-aware load balancer that specifically targets web-based applications and APIs.
Network Load Balancers: A high performance Layer 4 (TCP) load-balancing service, typically used for...

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Authors (1)

Justin Menga

Justin Menga

Justin Menga is a full-stack technologist with over 20 years experience of working with organizations to build large-scale applications and platforms, with a focus on end-to-end application architecture, the cloud, continuous delivery, and infrastructure automation. Justin started his career as an infrastructure and network engineer/architect, working with many large enterprise and service provider customers. In the past few years, Justin has switched his focus to building applications and full-service platforms, working with a wide array of technologies, yet still maintaining and applying his prior infrastructure and network expertise to containers and public clouds. He has programmed in Objective C, C#, ASP.NET, JavaScript, Scala, Python, Java, and Go, and has a keen interest in continuous delivery, Docker, and automation tools that speed the path from development to production.

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