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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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Building a custom AMI using Packer

Now that you understand the rationale for building a custom ECS container instance image, let's introduce a tool called Packer, which allows you to build machine images for a wide variety of platforms, including AWS.

Packer is an open source tool created by HashiCorp, which you can find out more about at https://www.packer.io/. Packer can build machine images for a wide variety of target platforms, however in this chapter we will only focus on building Amazon Machine Images.

Installing Packer

Before you can get started using Packer, you need to install it on your local environment. Packer is supported for Linux, mac OS, and Windows platforms, and to install Packer for your target platform...

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Authors (1)

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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