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Amazon Fargate Quick Start Guide

You're reading from Amazon Fargate Quick Start Guide Learn how to use AWS Fargate to run containers with ease

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789345018

Length 190 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Containerization

Author (1):

Deepak Vohra

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

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Preface

1. Getting Started with Amazon ECS and Amazon Fargate FREE CHAPTER

2. Networking

3. Using CloudWatch Logs

4. Using Auto Scaling

5. Using IAM

6. Using an Application Load Balancer

7. Using Amazon ECS CLI

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Index

Running additional tasks

By default, one task is created. In this section, we shall discuss the procedure to add an additional task. The Tasks tab in the cluster displays the tasks associated with a cluster:

Tasks associated with a service are listed on the service page. To display a task definition's details, click on the link for the task definition in the Service page or the cluster page. A task definition is shown in the following screenshot:

To run a new task, select Actions | Run Task. A new task gets created with Run Task:

Two options are provided for the launch type to run a new task: Fargate and EC2. Select the Fargate launch type, as shown in the following screenshot.
The Task Definition name is pre-specified. The Platform version is LATEST by default.
The Cluster is also selected and, if more than one cluster is available, the cluster may be selected from a drop-down list.
Specify the Number of tasks to create.
Optionally, specify a Task Group. A task group is a set of related tasks...

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Authors (1)

Deepak Vohra

Deepak Vohra

Deepak Vohra is consultant and principle a member of the NuBean software company. He is a Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) and Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD) and has worked in the fields of XML, Java programming, and J2EE for over 10 years. He is the coauthor of the Apress book Pro XML Development with Java Technology. Deepak is the author of several Packt Publishing books, including Processing XML documents with Oracle JDeveloper 11g and Java EE Development with Eclipse. Deepak is also a Docker Mentor and has published four other Docker-related books.

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