Implementing application load balancing of Amazon ECS Anywhere workloads using Traefik Proxy

Introduction

With Amazon ECS Anywhere, you can run and manage containers on any customer-managed infrastructure using the same cloud-based, fully managed, and highly scalable container orchestration service you use in AWS today. Amazon ECS Anywhere provides support for registering an external instance, such as an on-premises server or virtual machine (VM), to your Amazon ECS cluster. External instances are optimized for running applications that generate outbound traffic or process data, and can also be used to host applications that service inbound requests such as frontend web applications, microservices, or Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).

When using Amazon ECS Anywhere to manage applications that service inbound requests, it’s possible to configure an Amazon Elastic Containers Service (Amazon ECS) service to run and maintain a specified number of instances of a task definition simultaneously across multiple Amazon ECS external instances to provide increased capacity, …