As discussed in the introduction to this chapter, Elastic Beanstalk is a PaaS offering from AWS that allows you to focus on application code and features rather than worry about the surrounding infrastructure required to support your application. To this end, Elastic Beanstalk is somewhat opinionated in its approach and generally works in a specific way. Elastic Beanstalk does leverage other AWS services as much as possible, and tries to take the effort and complexity out of integrating with these services, which works well if you follow the way Elastic Beanstalk expects you to use these services. If you are running a small team in a small to medium sized organization, Elastic Beanstalk can bring a lot of value to the table, providing lots of functionality out of the box. However, as soon as your organization grows and you look to...
Docker on Amazon Web Services
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Docker on Amazon Web Services
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Overview of this book
Over the last few years, Docker has been the gold standard for building and distributing container applications. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a leader in public cloud computing, and was the first to offer a managed container platform in the form of the Elastic Container Service (ECS).
Docker on Amazon Web Services starts with the basics of containers, Docker, and AWS, before teaching you how to install Docker on your local machine and establish access to your AWS account. You'll then dig deeper into the ECS, a native container management platform provided by AWS that simplifies management and operation of your Docker clusters and applications for no additional cost. Once you have got to grips with the basics, you'll solve key operational challenges, including secrets management and auto-scaling your infrastructure and applications. You'll explore alternative strategies for deploying and running your Docker applications on AWS, including Fargate and ECS Service Discovery, Elastic Beanstalk, Docker Swarm and Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). In addition to this, there will be a strong focus on adopting an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach using AWS CloudFormation.
By the end of this book, you'll not only understand how to run Docker on AWS, but also be able to build real-world, secure, and scalable container platforms in the cloud.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Preface
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Container and Docker Fundamentals
Building Applications Using Docker
Getting Started with AWS
Introduction to ECS
Publishing Docker Images Using ECR
Building Custom ECS Container Instances
Creating ECS Clusters
Deploying Applications Using ECS
Managing Secrets
Isolating Network Access
Managing ECS Infrastructure Life Cycle
ECS Auto Scaling
Continuously Delivering ECS Applications
Fargate and ECS Service Discovery
Elastic Beanstalk
Docker Swarm in AWS
Elastic Kubernetes Service
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