July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
340 pages
7h 43m
English
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Provisioning and deployment - CloudFormation and ECS
As described in Chapter 10, Containerized Services, there are many different ways to provision and deploy your Docker containers in the cloud, and tools like Kubernetes can be used on AWS to manage all your running instances.
AWS also offers its service to deploy clusters of containerized applications; it is called EC2 Container Service-ECS (https://aws.amazon.com/ecs) and leverages another service called CloudFormation (https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/).
CloudFormation lets you describe the different instances you want to run on Amazon via JSON files, and drives everything automatically on AWS, from deploying instances to autoscaling.
ECS is, basically, a set of dashboards to visualize ...