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Amazon Fargate Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Amazon Fargate Quick Start Guide Learn how to use AWS Fargate to run containers with ease

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789345018
Length 190 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Deepak Vohra Deepak Vohra
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Amazon ECS and Amazon Fargate FREE CHAPTER 2. Networking 3. Using CloudWatch Logs 4. Using Auto Scaling 5. Using IAM 6. Using an Application Load Balancer 7. Using Amazon ECS CLI 8. Other Books You May Enjoy

Networking

Amazon ECS is a managed service for containerized applications based on Docker containers. Managed service implies that ECS manages all container orchestration aspects including launching a cluster of virtual machines (EC2 instances), creating and scheduling containers on the virtual machines, and scaling the cluster of VMs.

Problem: Amazon ECS runs Docker containers on virtual machines (EC2 instances). The EC2 launch type incurs an overhead of launching and managing a cluster of virtual machines (EC2 instances). As a primer on ECS, a task definition defines a group of containers (container definitions). A container definition defines a name, Docker image, port mappings, entry point, and command. Resources (CPU and memory) are defined at both the task and container level. A service definition defines a service and consists of a task definition, launch type, load...

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