COM04-AWS200.md

COM04-AWS200 - Deploy a Docker container image on AWS Fargate

Cloud Service Provider

• Amazon Web Services

Difficulty

• Level 200 (Intermediate)

Project's Author(s)

• Johan Rin

Objectives

Prerequisites

• Push a Docker image to Amazon ECR repository

You need to complete the following:

• Configure your container with your Docker image
• Configure your task definition
• Define your service
• Configure your cluster

You need to answer the following:

• What is a container?
• What is the difference between Soft memory limit and Hard memory limit for a custom container?
• What is a task definition?
• What is the name of the default task execution role?
• What does a task size allow?
• What is a service?
• Which load balancer type Fargate can handle?
• How many security groups are created by default if you use a load balancer?
• What is a cluster?
• What are cluster names limitations?

References

• Getting started with Amazon ECS using Fargate
• Deploy Docker Containers
• How Amazon ECS manages CPU and memory resources
• Amazon ECS Task Execution IAM Role

Costs

• Included in the Free Tier

Estimated time to complete

• 45 minutes - only if you already have a Docker image