Amazon ECS Core Concepts
This presentation covers core concepts of Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) orchestration. It is designed to introduce containers on AWS, and the key topics you need to master to be successful with a container deployment. You will learn the following topics:
Core concepts of containers and using Amazon ECS to manage containers on AWS
Amazon ECS Scalability Best Practices
This presentation covers best practices for planning and executing an auto scaling strategy for containers on AWS under Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) orchestration. It covers the following topics:
How to scale a container application using Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate
Bun JavaScript container that uses AWS SDK to connect to DynamoDB
About
Bun is a fast, lightweight server side JavaScript implementation that is based on Apple’s JavaScriptCore instead of Google’s V8.
In this pattern you will learn how to create a container that hosts a Bun app, and deploy the container to AWS Fargate using Amazon ECS.
Build a Bun JavaScript container that runs in AWS Fargate via Amazon ECS, and uses AWS SDK to query a DynamoDB table
Explore file system contents of a container image locally
There are three main ways to explore the contents of a local container image. Which one you choose depends primarily on how much you trust the container image authors, and the code inside of the image.
CLI commands to explore the contents of a local Docker image
ECS Task Execution IAM Role for AWS Secrets Manager
The following CloudFormation example shows how to write a task execution role for Amazon Elastic File System (ECS) which allows ECS to fetch a secret value stored in AWS Secrets Manager.
ECS task execution IAM role that allows attaching a secrets to an ECS task
ECS Task Execution IAM Role for Elastic File System (EFS)
The following CloudFormation example shows how to write a task execution role for Amazon Elastic File System (ECS) which allows ECS to mount an Elastic File System to a task.