In this course, you learn how to make infrastructure choices to support containerized applications running on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) at an enterprise scale. You learn how to scope requirements based on your application, select the best architecture to support your application, and design reusable infrastructure patterns that are secure, performant, and resilient.

• Course level: Advanced
• Duration: 90 minutes

Activities

This course includes presentations and activities.

Course objectives

In this course, you learn to:

• Design and build an architecture to support the needs of your application.
• Select the right design and tooling for building reusable infrastructure patterns.

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

• Cloud architects
• DevOps engineers
• Operations staff
• Developers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• Working knowledge of containers and Amazon ECS
• Previous experience deploying simple applications on Amazon ECS
• Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Primer
  

Course outline

Module 1: Profiling Your Application

• Introduction
• Creating Your Application Profile

Module 2: Selecting the Right Technologies

• Compute Model
• Networking Model
• Storage Model
• Scoping Permissions
• Managing Secrets

Module 3: Configuring Service-to-Service Communication

• Selecting the Appropriate Technology

Module 4: Activity

• Activity: Using Your Application Profile to Configure your Environment