Docker Community Edition for AWS (which we will call Docker for AWS from now on) is an Amazon CloudFormation template created by Docker that is designed to easily launch a Docker Swarm mode cluster in AWS with Docker best practices and recommendations applied.
CloudFormation is a service that's offered by Amazon that allows you to define how you would like your infrastructure to look in a template file that can then be shared or brought under version control.
The first thing we need to do – and it's also the only thing we need to configure ahead of launching Docker for AWS—is to ensure that we have an SSH key assigned to our account in the region we will be launching our cluster. To do this, log in to the ...
