Working with Amazon Elastic Container Service

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Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a highly scalable, fast, container management service that makes it easy to run, stop, and manage Docker containers on a cluster of Amazon EC2 instances. This lab leads you through the steps to create Task Definitions from Docker containers, populate an ECS Cluster with Load Balanced EC2 Instances, deploy Tasks to the Cluster, make revisions, and scale up the Cluster.

Level

Fundamental

Duration

1 Hours 0 Minutes

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Create an ECS Task Definition
• Populate an ECS Cluster
• Deploy an application to an ECS Service
• Deploy an application update by changing the Task Definition
• Scale up the application

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Architects
• Developers
• Systems Operators

Prerequisites

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

• Familiar with Docker containers as well as general techniques and vocabulary of server administration and DevOps
• Basic understanding of web applications and networking, such as TCP port, HTTP Proxies, and Load Balancers

Course Outline

• Task 1: Register A Task Definition With The amazon-ecs-sample Image
• Task 2: Create a Service
• Task 3: Deploy a New Application Version to the Service
• Task 4: Update a Running Service