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Amazon Fargate Quick Start Guide

By : Deepak Vohra
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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

Chapter 1. Getting Started with Amazon ECS and Amazon Fargate

Docker can be installed on the most commonly used OS platforms. CoreOS has Docker pre-installed, and is designed specifically for running Docker containers. Docker for AWS provides an out-of-the-box Docker swarm mode in which a cluster of nodes, called a swarm, provides a distributed platform for running Docker container applications.

Problem:All the aforementioned Docker platforms are only different types of Docker installations, and require Docker containers to run and be managed on the command line.

Solution: Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service) is a managed service for Docker containers with built-in support for scaling, load balancing, networking, storage, logging, and other Docker container management tasks. Amazon ECS supports two launch types: EC2 and Fargate.

With the EC2 launch type, EC2 instances are started to run Docker containers. The Fargate launch type, which was introduced recently (November 2017), hosts tasks that encapsulate Docker containers. The tasks are directly made accessible to the user via an Elastic Network Interface (ENI). The EC2 instances on which Fargate is provisioned are not exposed to the user and are not directly accessible. 

In this chapter, we will learn about the following:

  • What Amazon Fargate is
  • Benefits of Fargate
  • Amazon ECS objects
  • Compute resources in Amazon ECS Fargate
  • What's new in the Amazon Fargate launch type mode?