Tuesday, 16 April 2024

This lab illustrates how to launch a web server using Amazon ECS's Fargate service.

 

Architecture Diagram

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Overview

Fargate is a fully managed container service that automatically allocates computing resources to run containers with scaling capabilities. To best understand Amazon's Elastic Container Service let's break it into components:

  • Container: packaging of an application including code, runtime, system tools, libraries, and everything else needed to run an application (a container is created from an image);
  • Cluster: a logical group of tasks or services (this lab will create an ECS cluster containing a single task);
  • Task: specified in JSON format, a task defines what to do (the application itself), where to run it (minimum infrastructure requirements), and how to run it (logging, scaling configurations, security configurations, etc.);
  • Service: number of instances of tasks to run and launching parameters.

Note that a cluster can contain tasks that are running on distinct containers.

To start this lab go to ECS and click on Get started. This lab will create a Fargate cluster using the sample-app template.

Step 1 - Choose a Container's Image

Select the sample-app container image which has definitions to run a web server using a single task.

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Step 2 - Provide Service Settings

For lab you can accept the default settings.

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Step 3 - Configure your Cluster

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Step 4 - Review

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When the configuration is deployed, click on view service.

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