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Amazon Fargate Quick Start Guide

By : Deepak Vohra
Book Image

Amazon Fargate Quick Start Guide

By: Deepak Vohra

Overview of this book

Amazon Fargate is new launch type for the Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). ECS is an AWS service for Docker container orchestration. Docker is the de facto containerization framework and has revolutionized packaging and deployment of software. The introduction of Fargate has made the ECS platform serverless. The book takes you through how Amazon Fargate runs ECS services composed of tasks and Docker containers and exposes the containers to the user. Fargate has simplified the ECS platform. We will learn how Fargate creates an Elastic Network Interface (ENI) for each task and how auto scaling can be enabled for ECS tasks. You will also learn about using an IAM policy to download Docker images and send logs to CloudWatch. Finally, by the end of this book, you will have learned about how to use ECS CLI to create an ECS cluster and deploy tasks with Docker Compose.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Exploring CloudWatch Logs


In this section, we shall find details about the CloudWatch logs generated and display the log streams generated:

  1.  Click on Logs in the CloudWatch Console, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. In Filter, specify /ecs/mysql or just /ecs, which is the value of the awslogs-stream-prefix option for the awslogs log driver, as configured in the container definition in the Configuring logging section. The log group   /ecs/mysql-task-definition is displayed, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. Click on the log group to display the log streams, as shown in the following screenshot:

The log events in the log stream get displayed. Each log event is associated with a timestamp and a log message. An example log message is Initializing database, as shown in the following screenshot. Some of the messages have [Warning] associated with them:

A CloudWatch log message indicating the MySQL database is running and accepting connections is the message mysqld: ready for connections, as...