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...