July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
402 pages
9h 38m
English
The best way to understand how Docker works is to compare how using Docker differs from what we did so far, shown in the following diagram:

The first stack on the left is what we have done so far. Using the EC2 service, we picked an AMI providing AWS Linux and, with the help of the user data field, installed Ansible to configure our system. When Ansible kicks in, it installs and configures the system so that, later, CodeDeploy can deploy our application and run it.
The middle stack represents what it means to use Docker on top of EC2. The process starts the same way with an AMI running AWS Linux, but this time, instead ...
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