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Docker on Amazon Web Services

You're reading from Docker on Amazon Web Services Build, deploy, and manage your container applications at scale

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788626507

Length 822 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Containerization

Author (1):

Justin Menga

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Dedication

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Preface

1. Container and Docker Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

2. Building Applications Using Docker

3. Getting Started with AWS

4. Introduction to ECS

5. Publishing Docker Images Using ECR

6. Building Custom ECS Container Instances

7. Creating ECS Clusters

8. Deploying Applications Using ECS

9. Managing Secrets

10. Isolating Network Access

11. Managing ECS Infrastructure Life Cycle

12. ECS Auto Scaling

13. Continuously Delivering ECS Applications

14. Fargate and ECS Service Discovery

15. Elastic Beanstalk

16. Docker Swarm in AWS

17. Elastic Kubernetes Service

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Questions

True/False: An RDS instance requires you to create a DB subnet group with at least two subnets.
When configuring an Application Load Balancer, which component services frontend connections from end users?
True/False: A target group can accept registrations from targets before the Application Load Balancer listener is created.
When configuring security group rules permitting access between an application database and ECS container instances, you receive a CloudFormation error about circular dependencies. What type of resources can you use to overcome this issue?
You configure an ECS task definition that includes two container definitions. One of the container definition performs a short provisioning task and then exits. You discover that ECS is continuously restarting ECS services based on this task definition. How can you resolve this issue?
Which CloudFormation parameter can you configure to define explicit dependencies on other resources?
True/False: CloudFormation custom resources...

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Authors (1)

Justin Menga

Justin Menga

Justin Menga is a full-stack technologist with over 20 years experience of working with organizations to build large-scale applications and platforms, with a focus on end-to-end application architecture, the cloud, continuous delivery, and infrastructure automation. Justin started his career as an infrastructure and network engineer/architect, working with many large enterprise and service provider customers. In the past few years, Justin has switched his focus to building applications and full-service platforms, working with a wide array of technologies, yet still maintaining and applying his prior infrastructure and network expertise to containers and public clouds. He has programmed in Objective C, C#, ASP.NET, JavaScript, Scala, Python, Java, and Go, and has a keen interest in continuous delivery, Docker, and automation tools that speed the path from development to production.

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