Deploy Containers on AWS: With EC2, ECS, and EKS

© Shimon Ifrah 2019

S. IfrahDeploy Containers on AWShttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5101-0_5

5. Installing a Docker Host on an Amazon EC2 Instance

Shimon Ifrah¹ 

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Melbourne, VIC, Australia

 

In this chapter, I will show you how to install Docker on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance. Amazon EC2 provides a computing infrastructure that is scalable and allows you to run all kinds of workloads including Docker containers.

Up until now, you have used Amazon container services to run containers without setting up container hosts, storage, and networking because it was all done by AWS. This time, you are going to deploy Docker without using AWS container services.

In this chapter, you will go back to the basics and learn how to deploy Docker ...