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Building Applications Using Docker

In the previous chapter, you were introduced to the sample application, and you were able to download and run the application locally. At present, your development environment is set up for local development; however, before you can get your application to production, you need to be able to package up your application and all of its dependencies, ensure the target production environment has the correct supporting operating system libraries and configuration, select an appropriate web server to host your application, and have a mechanism to be able to package this all together, ideally in a self-contained artifact that requires minimal external configuration. Traditionally, all of this has been very difficult to achieve reliably and consistently – but this is where Docker has changed the landscape dramatically. With Docker and supporting...

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Configure Docker for the ECS environment

Integrate Docker with different AWS tools

Implement container networking and deployment at scale

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Over the last few years, Docker has been the gold standard for building and distributing container applications. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a leader in public cloud computing, and was the first to offer a managed container platform in the form of the Elastic Container Service (ECS). Docker on Amazon Web Services starts with the basics of containers, Docker, and AWS, before teaching you how to install Docker on your local machine and establish access to your AWS account. You'll then dig deeper into the ECS, a native container management platform provided by AWS that simplifies management and operation of your Docker clusters and applications for no additional cost. Once you have got to grips with the basics, you'll solve key operational challenges, including secrets management and auto-scaling your infrastructure and applications. You'll explore alternative strategies for deploying and running your Docker applications on AWS, including Fargate and ECS Service Discovery, Elastic Beanstalk, Docker Swarm and Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). In addition to this, there will be a strong focus on adopting an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach using AWS CloudFormation. By the end of this book, you'll not only understand how to run Docker on AWS, but also be able to build real-world, secure, and scalable container platforms in the cloud.

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Docker on Amazon Web Services is for you if you want to build, deploy, and operate applications using the power of containers, Docker, and Amazon Web Services. Basic understanding of containers and Amazon Web Services or any other cloud provider will be helpful, although no previous experience of working with these is required.

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Build, deploy, and operate Docker applications using AWS

Solve key operational challenges, such as secrets management

Exploit the powerful capabilities and tight integration of other AWS services

Design and operate Docker applications running on ECS

Deploy Docker applications quickly, consistently, and reliably using IaC

Manage and operate Docker clusters and applications for no additional cost

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Daniel Aboyewa Dec 07, 2018

Very informative

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R. Langham Jan 24, 2021

I routinely read development books, and this is one the best that I have read. It is very complete and goes into a lot of detail. It it went into areas of ECS that I had not expected, such as being able to create your own custom EC2 image for the ECS docker EC2 instances. The first few chapters are review of general aws and docker. Skipped them at first, but then went back to them after completing reading most of the other chapters. I learned a few new things there.One of the nice things the book does initially is cover how to do the ECS operations in the aws console, command line, and cloudformation. Eventually, as your progress thru the chapters, it ends up being mostly cloudformation. This was a big plus for me as for my work we deploy all infrastructure using cloudformation. I recommended the book to a couple of others at work.

Amazon Customer Sep 25, 2018

This book is a well structured and well written guide to deploying dockerized apps on AWS - it gives a good overview of the tools available and also detailed guidance on how to use each - its well written and very comprehensive (700 + pages). There are an almost bewildering variety of tools and techniques available when creating infrastructure as code and this book does a good job of giving an organized view of them and suggesting best practices.

Constantine Sep 24, 2018

This book is a must if you want to learn how to deploy scalable applications using AWS container services. It is a step by step guide to everything from creating your IAM policies to setting up auto scaling. The amount of information in this book is pretty ridiculous.

Nick from Chicago Jul 26, 2020

This seems like a comprehensive book, however the code is outdated and does not work. Chapter one had an issue that I was able to work around, now I'm on chapter 2 and again running into code that's not working. There is a github repo with the code from the book, however it appears that hasn't been updated in the past couple of years, and contains the same out of date code from the book. And the problem is each chapter has a prerequisite that the previous chapter was completed, so, if the code for one particular chapter isn't working, you can't continue on to any subsequent chapters.

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