Why is implementing a container image cache strategy important?
The short answer is that we don’t want to wait for a Windows container to take six or more minutes to initiate and start receiving traffic. Still, it usually is more than that since a lot of concurrent I/O will be happening under the hood, and even containers that are ready to serve traffic may experience poor performance.
As we already learned in Chapter 6, Deploying a Fargate Windows-Based Task, usually, a Windows container image is composed of multiple intermediate layers, which are also big in size. In the following figure, we have a widespread scenario across Amazon ECS and EKS clusters that host Windows containers composed of an application framework diversification and sidecars containers. For this, I will use applications ABC and XYZ as samples and Fluent Bit as a log aggregator running as a sidecar container:
- Web application based on ASP.NET Framework 3.5 called ABC
- Web application based...
