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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

Questions


  1. True/false: An EC2 Auto Scaling group allows you to define a fixed IP address for each instance.
  2. What type of encoding needs to be applied to EC2 user data?
  3. How can you refer to the current AWS region in your CloudFormation templates?
  4. True/false: The Ref intrinsic function can only refer to resources in a CloudFormation template.
  5. When using CloudFormation Init metadata, which two helper scripts do you need to run on your EC2 instances?
  6. You are attempting to create an EC2 Auto Scaling group and ECS cluster using the standard ECS-optimized AMI published by Amazon, however you receive errors indicating no instances are registered to a target ECS cluster even though CloudFormation reports the Auto Scaling group has been created. How might you fix this problem?
  7. True/false: The aws cloudformation create command is used for deploying and updating CloudFormation stacks.
  8. You are attempting to deploy an ECS cluster in a private subnet with no default internet route, however the ECS container instances...