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Amazon Fargate Quick Start Guide
Amazon Fargate Quick Start Guide

Amazon Fargate Quick Start Guide: Learn how to use AWS Fargate to run containers with ease

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Amazon Fargate Quick Start Guide

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...

Creating an ECS cluster and service

Select Amazon ECS and click on Get Started to start creating an ECS cluster and service. First, a container definition and a task definition are configured, and subsequently the service and cluster are configured to create the ECS objects cluster, service, task definition, and container definition. We shall discuss configuring each of the these in the following sub-sections. 

Configuring a Container definition

The Amazon ECS wizard gets started. A diagram of ECS objects gets displayed, as shown in Chapter 1Getting Started with Amazon ECS and Amazon Fargate. By default, the Fargate launch type is used. First, the container definition is to be defined, followed by the task...

Running additional tasks

By default, one task is created. In this section, we shall discuss the procedure to add an additional task. The Tasks tab in the cluster displays the tasks associated with a cluster:

Tasks associated with a service are listed on the service page. To display a task definition's details, click on the link for the task definition in the Service page or the cluster page. A task definition is shown in the following screenshot:

  • To run a new task, select ActionsRun Task. A new task gets created with Run Task:
  • Two options are provided for the launch type to run a new task: Fargate and EC2. Select the Fargate launch type, as shown in the following screenshot.
  • The Task Definition name is pre-specified. The Platform version is LATEST by default.
  • The Cluster is also selected and, if more than one cluster is available, the cluster may be selected...

Accessing the service

To be able to access a service, the Network Access should be configured with Auto-assign public IP as ENABLED, as shown in the following screenshot:

To provide network access, an ENI gets created for each task. The ENI is associated with a public IP that may be used to access an application running in a task container:

  • Click on the link for a task in Service | Tasks, as shown in the following screenshot:
  • On the task detail page, click on the link for the ENI Id, as shown in the following screenshot:
  • Copy the IPv4 Public IP from the ENI console, 18.219.111.138 in the following screenshot, which would be different for different users:
  • Specify the IPv4 Public IP in a browser to invoke the Hello World application, as shown in the following screenshot:

Deleting a cluster

To delete a cluster, the cluster must not be running any tasks:

  • Select all running tasks and click on Stopas shown in the following screenshot. Alternatively, select Stop All, without selecting any tasks:
  • In the Stop tasks confirmation dialog, click on Stop. The tasks get stopped, as indicated by the message Stopped tasks successfully.
  • Click on Delete Cluster to delete the cluster:
  • In the Delete Cluster confirmation dialog, click on Delete. The hello-world cluster gets deleted. If the CoudFormation stack associated with the cluster times out before the cluster gets deleted, an error message gets displayed, as shown in the following screenshot, and the cluster does not get deleted. If the CloudFormation stack does not get deleted automatically when the ECS cluster is chosen to be deleted, click on the View CloudFormation...

Summary

In this chapter, we introduced the Fargate launch type as used with an ECS cluster. We created a cluster, including container, task, and service definitions, using a Hello World Docker image. Subsequently, we invoked the Hello World application using the IPv4 public IP of the Elastic Network Interface associated with a task. Some of the container definition and task definition parameters are different for the Fargate launch type in comparison to the EC2 launch type, which is still available as an alternative with ECS. In the next chapter, we shall discuss integrating the CloudWatch Logs service with Fargate.

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  • Gives you a quick walk-through over the Amazon Elastic Container Services (ECS)
  • Provides an in depth knowledge of the components that Amazon Fargate has to offer.
  • Learn the practical aspects of Docker application development with a managed service

Description

Amazon Fargate is new launch type for the Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). ECS is an AWS service for Docker container orchestration. Docker is the de facto containerization framework and has revolutionized packaging and deployment of software. The introduction of Fargate has made the ECS platform serverless. The book takes you through how Amazon Fargate runs ECS services composed of tasks and Docker containers and exposes the containers to the user. Fargate has simplified the ECS platform. We will learn how Fargate creates an Elastic Network Interface (ENI) for each task and how auto scaling can be enabled for ECS tasks. You will also learn about using an IAM policy to download Docker images and send logs to CloudWatch. Finally, by the end of this book, you will have learned about how to use ECS CLI to create an ECS cluster and deploy tasks with Docker Compose.

Who is this book for?

This book is for Docker users and developers who want to learn about the Fargate platform. Typical job roles for which the book is suitable are DevOps Architect, Docker Engineer, and AWS Cloud Engineer. Prior knowledge of AWS and ECS is helpful but not mandatory.

What you will learn

  • Running Docker containers with a managed service
  • Use Amazon ECS in Fargate launch mode
  • Configure CloudWatch Logging with Fargate
  • Use an IAM Role with Fargate
  • Understand how ECS CLI is used with Fargate
  • Learn how to use an Application Load Balancer with Fargate
  • Learn about Auto Scaling with Fargate

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Getting Started with Amazon ECS and Amazon Fargate Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Networking Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using CloudWatch Logs Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using Auto Scaling Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using IAM Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using an Application Load Balancer Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using Amazon ECS CLI Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Additional tasks could be used to serve additional requests or request load. Load balancer balances the load across the tasks.On retesting found that latest ECS version indeed has some new features that were not available at the time the book was published. A new capacity provider strategy has been added. To use the example in the book don't select the capacity provider strategy. Instead select the Launch Type Strategy. Select Launch Type as Fargate. As an example, to add two new tasks set Number of Tasks as 2.Auto Assign may be set to ENABLED only if Launch Type is selected as FARGATE. Please retest as suggested and Auto Assign should be set to ENABLED as shown in screenshot in the book.
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Excelente artículo
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If you are new to Fargate this is the book to refer to for quick and easy learning
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I learned a few things from this book that just aren’t as accessible in the AWS documentation, but it’s not much more useful than that, and definately not woth the $18-ish dollar price tag.
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I really don't want to go to the trouble of returning this.
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