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Containerize with AWS – Building Solutions with AWS EKS
In the previous chapter, we built and automated our solution on AWS while utilizing Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2). We built VM images with Packer and provisioned our VMs using Terraform. In this chapter, we’ll follow a similar path, but instead of working with VMs, we’ll look at hosting our application in containers within a Kubernetes cluster.
To achieve this, we’ll need to alter our approach by ditching Packer and replacing it with Docker to create a deployable artifact for our application. Once again, we will be using the aws provider for Terraform, but this time, we’ll be introducing something new: the kubernetes provider for Terraform, which will provision to the Kubernetes cluster ...
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