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Mastering Docker - Third Edition

By : Russ McKendrick, Scott Gallagher
Book Image

Mastering Docker - Third Edition

By: Russ McKendrick, Scott Gallagher

Overview of this book

Docker has been a game-changer when it comes to how modern applications are deployed and created. It has now grown into a key driver of innovation beyond system administration, with an impact on the world of web development. But how can you make sure you're keeping up with the innovations it's driving, or be sure you're using it to its full potential? Mastering Docker shows you how; this book not only demonstrates how to use Docker more effectively, but also helps you rethink and reimagine what's possible with it. You will cover concepts such as building, managing, and storing images, along with best practices to make you confident, before delving more into Docker security. You'll find everything related to extending and integrating Docker in new and innovative ways. Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, and Kubernetes will help you take control of your containers in an efficient manner. By the end of the book, you will have a broad, yet detailed, sense of what's possible with Docker, and how seamlessly it fits in with a range of other platforms and tools.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate

Amazon Web Services offers a few different container solutions. The one we are going to look at in this section is part of the Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and is called AWS Fargate.

Traditionally, Amazon ECS launches EC2 instances. Once launched, an Amazon ECS agent is deployed alongside a container runtime that allows you to then manage your containers using the AWS Console and command-line tools. AWS Fargate removes the need to launch EC2 instances, allowing you to simply launch containers without having to worry about managing a cluster or having the expense of EC2 instances.

We are going to cheat slightly and work through the Amazon ECS first run process. You can access this by going to the following URL: https://console.aws.amazon.com/ecs/home#/firstRun. This will take us through the four steps we need to take to launch a container within...