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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

Creating an ECS cluster and service


Select Amazon ECS and click on Get Started to start creating an ECS cluster and service. First, a container definition and a task definition are configured, and subsequently the service and cluster are configured to create the ECS objects cluster, service, task definition, and container definition. We shall discuss configuring each of the these in the following sub-sections. 

Configuring a Container definition

The Amazon ECS wizard gets started. A diagram of ECS objects gets displayed, as shown in Chapter 1Getting Started with Amazon ECS and Amazon Fargate. By default, the Fargate launch type is used. First, the container definition is to be defined, followed by the task definition. 

A Task definition consists of one or more container definitions. Most of the attributes are defined in the container definition, but a few are defined at the task level. To start with, select a container definition template, including the image, from one of those listed, which...