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Expert AWS Development

You're reading from   Expert AWS Development Efficiently develop, deploy, and manage your enterprise apps on the Amazon Web Services platform

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788477581
Length 408 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Atul Mistry Atul Mistry
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. AWS Tools and SDKs FREE CHAPTER 2. Integrating Applications with AWS Services 3. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Workflow 4. CI/CD in AWS Part 1 – CodeCommit, CodeBuild, and Testing 5. CI/CD in AWS Part 2 – CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, and CodeStar 6. User Authentication with AWS Cognito 7. Evaluating the Best Architecture 8. Traditional Web Hosting – Amazon EC2 and Elastic Load Balancing 9. Amazon EC2 Container Service 10. Amazon Lambda – AWS Serverless Architecture 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Container instances


We will divide container instances into the following different topics, and discuss them:

  • Basic concepts of a container instance
  • Life cycle of a container instance
  • Checking an instance role for an account
  • AMIs for container instances
  • Update notification subscribing to Amazon ECS–optimized AMI
  • Launching an Amazon ECS container instance
  • Bootstrapping container instances with Amazon EC2 user data
  • Connecting your container instance
  • Container instances with CloudWatch Logs
  • Container instance draining
  • Remotely managing your container instances
  • Deregistering your container instance

Basic concepts of a container instance

  • A container instance must run the Amazon ECS container agent to register the clusters. If your AMI is Amazon ECS-optimized then the agent is already installed. For different operating systems, you must install the agent.
  • The Amazon ECS container agent makes calls to the Amazon ECS on your behalf. Your container instance must be launched with a proper IAM role to authenticate...
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