Containerizing Windows applications with AWS App2Container

I’m a big App2Container fan. The value proposition and simplicity the tool brings to you are fantastic. App2Container (A2C) allows you to remotely connect to your application server, extract binaries and configurations, and automatically build and deploy the application as a Windows container on Amazon ECS, EKS, or AWS Fargate.

App2Container is a command-line interface tool that is available for free from AWS, and you only pay for the deployed AWS resources. The process from extraction to deploying a container is a set of command lines we will cover in this section, but before that, let’s understand the A2C workflow.

In the following figure, we have a detailed workflow on how A2C connects, extracts, and deploys Windows applications as containers:

Figure 15.2 – A2C workflow

Only six instructions must be executed from the command line in the A2C Worker machine to generate...