Observing, Troubleshooting, and Optimizing Workloads Running on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

This lab will walk the student through the process of troubleshooting issues that arise with your load balancers, tasks, services, or container instances. The student will be presented with challenge scenarios and will be given a series of hints and challenges in oder to resolve the current issue.

This lab uses the following services:

      •    AWS Elastic Container Service

      •    AWS EC2

      •    AWS Cloud9

      •    AWS Autoscaling

Level

Advanced

Duration

1 Hour 0 Minutes

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

      •    Deploy and maintain an application hosted on a cluster of Amazon ECS containters

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

      •    Solutions Architects

      •    Developers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

      •    Be familiar with Amazon ECS, Amazon ECR and Amazon Auto Scaling

      •    A technical knowledge of container technology

Course outline

Introduction

      •    Task 1: Deploy AnyCookie application using Amazon ECS

      •    Task 2: Investigate why task failed ELB health check

      •    Task 3: Troubleshoot stopped task

      •    Task 4: Learn how to SSH into tasks using ECS Exec