Docker for AWS is a Swarm cluster which has been tuned by Docker to run in Amazon Web Services.
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AWS CloudFormation is a templating engine which allows you to define your AWS infrastructure and resources in a controllable and predictable fashion.
The AWS CloudFormation template can be found at:
https://editions-us-east-1.s3.amazonaws.com/aws/stable/Docker.tmpl
As you can see there is quite a lot to it, the image below is a visualization of the template above – while you may not be able to see all the content in the image you should get an idea of the complexity of the CloudFormation template supplied by Docker.
As you can see, the template does all the heavy lifting for you meaning you don't really have to do much apart from one thing, create an SSH key. To do this login to the AWS console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/, select EC2from the Services menu at the top of the screen, once the EC2 dashboard opens click on Key Pairs in the left-hand side menu.
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