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Docker on Amazon Web Services

By : Justin Menga
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Docker on Amazon Web Services

By: Justin Menga

Overview of this book

Over the last few years, Docker has been the gold standard for building and distributing container applications. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a leader in public cloud computing, and was the first to offer a managed container platform in the form of the Elastic Container Service (ECS). Docker on Amazon Web Services starts with the basics of containers, Docker, and AWS, before teaching you how to install Docker on your local machine and establish access to your AWS account. You'll then dig deeper into the ECS, a native container management platform provided by AWS that simplifies management and operation of your Docker clusters and applications for no additional cost. Once you have got to grips with the basics, you'll solve key operational challenges, including secrets management and auto-scaling your infrastructure and applications. You'll explore alternative strategies for deploying and running your Docker applications on AWS, including Fargate and ECS Service Discovery, Elastic Beanstalk, Docker Swarm and Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). In addition to this, there will be a strong focus on adopting an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach using AWS CloudFormation. By the end of this book, you'll not only understand how to run Docker on AWS, but also be able to build real-world, secure, and scalable container platforms in the cloud.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Creating secrets using the AWS Secrets Manager


You have established a KMS key that can be used to encrypt and decrypt data, and you can now integrate this key with the AWS Secrets Manager service, which is a managed service launched in March 2018 that enables you to easily and cost effectively incorporate secrets management into your applications.

Creating secrets using the AWS console

Although we have focused on creating AWS resources via CloudFormation in the past few chapters, unfortunately at the time of writing, CloudFormation does not support AWS Secrets Manager resources, so if you are using AWS tools you need to provision your secrets via the AWS console or AWS CLI.

To create a new secret via the AWS console, select AWS Secrets Manager from the services list and click on the Store a new secret button. Select a secret type of Other type of secrets, specify a secret key and value, and select the secrets-key KMS key you created earlier in this chapter as demonstrated in the following screenshot...