5. What is Amazon ECS?
Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) is a highly scalable,
high performance container management service. You
can use Amazon ECS to schedule the placement of
containers across your cluster. You can also integrate your
own scheduler or third-party scheduler to meet business
or application specific requirements.
25. Amazon ECS under the Hood
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27. Anatomy of Task Placement
Cluster Constraints
Custom Constraints
Placement Strategies
Apply Filter
Satisfy CPU, memory, and port requirements
Filter for location, instance-type, AMI, or custom
attribute constraints
Identify instances that meet spread or binpack
placement strategy
Select final container instances for placement
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43. Amazon ECS: Under the Hood
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46. Three Steps to Getting Started with Events
Step 1: Create CWE Rule Step 2: Create SNS Topic Step 3: Put Events to SNS
47. Time and Event-Based Task Scheduling
• Schedule on fixed time intervals (e.g.: number of minutes, hours, or days)
• or use cron expressions.
• Set Amazon ECS as a CloudWatch Events target
48. Time and Event-Based Task Scheduling
• Schedule on fixed time intervals (e.g.: number of minutes, hours, or days)
• or use cron expressions.
• Set Amazon ECS as a CloudWatch Events target
55. t2.small t2.small t2.small
Blox: Daemon Scheduler
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scheduler cluster state service
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56. Contributing to Blox
• Blox is licensed under Apache 2.0
• Open an issue or pull request
• Watch our roadmap on GitHub
• Check out our Gitter channel
blox.github.io