Presentation from the AWS Cape Town Summit talking about all the ways to run containers on AWS

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Containers on AWS
R i c H a r v e y
T e c h n i c a l E v a n g e l i s t , A m a z o n W e b S e r v i c e s
@ r i c _ _ h a r v e y
Let me count the ways

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AMAZON CONTAINER SERVICES

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WHY DO WE LOVE CONTAINERS?
Packaging Distribution Immutable
infrastructure

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BUILDING AN ECOSYSTEM

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PRODUCTION WORKLOADS ON AWS
AWS VPC
networking mode
Advanced task
placement
Deep integration
with AWS platform
ECS CLI…{ }
Global footprint
Powerful scheduling
engines
Auto scaling
CloudWatch metrics
Load balancers

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HELPING CUSTOMERS SCALE CONTAINERS
450+%
growth
Hundreds of millions
of containers started each week
millions
of container instances

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9. “By taking advantage of Amazon ECS, we have the power
to understand, manipulate, and manage our environment
easily.”
Zaven Boni
DevOps Engineering Lead, GoPro

10. 70%
Reduction in Compute Footprint

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Make AWS the
BEST PLACE
to run containerized
applications
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SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT
99.99

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Make
containers
tasks a
fundamental
compute
primitive

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TASK NETWORKING
Default/Root Global Namespace
docker0
Io
eth0
172.16.0.0
172.16.1.0
172.16.2.0
1. Pre ENI Attachment: The
Primary ENI (eth0) is in the
default namespace
2. ENI Attachment: The new
ENI (eth1) is in the default
namespace
3. ENI Provisioned: The ECS Agent
invokes CNI plugins to move the
new ENI into a new namespace and
configures addresses and routes
Default/Root Global Namespace
docker0
Io
eth0
172.16.0.0
172.16.1.0
172.16.2.0
eth1
Default/Root Global Namespace
ecs0
Io
eth0
172.16.0.0
172.16.1.0
172.16.2.0
docker0
Io
eth0
172.16.0.0
172.16.1.0
172.16.2.0
ve-c1

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MANAGED SERVICE DISCOVERY
Applications invoked by name
Automatically resolved to IP or port
Native to Amazon ECS services
No infrastructure to manage

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FULL CD WITH AWS CODEPIPELINE
AWS
CodeCommit
AWS
CodeBuild
Amazon ECR Amazon ECS
Source
Repository
Build Deploy
or or
AWS
CodePipeline
Store Image
https://github.com/richarvey/bl_docker_to_production_ecs

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WINDOWS CONTAINERS
AWS IAM roles for
tasks
Advanced task
placement
Deep integration
with AWS platform
ECS CLI…{ }
Global footprint
Powerful scheduling
engines
Auto scaling
CloudWatch metrics
Load balancers

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CUSTOMERS ARE OUR KEY!
50+
releases
since 2015
Custom ers
Release
Feedback /
New Use
Cases
Learn
Experim ent,
Innovate,
& Build
Features

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E L A S T I C C O N TA I N E R S E R V I C E F O R K U B E R N E T E S
(EKS)

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57%of Kubernetes workloads
run on AWS today
— Cloud Native Computing Foundation

21. mycluster.eks.amazonaws.com
EKS Workers
kubectl
Amazon EKS
AZ 1 AZ 2 AZ 3
Your AWS account

22. EKS is Kubernetes Certified

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No instances
to manage
Task
native API
Resource
based pricing
Simple, easy to use,
powerful – and new
consumption model
=
CHANGING CO M PU TE CO NSU M PTIO N M O DEL

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HOW DO I RUN
CONTAINERS
ON FARGATE?

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ECS
AMI
Docker
agent
ECS
agent
ECSTaskECSTask
ECSTaskECSTask
EC2 Instance

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Scheduling and Orchestration
Cluster Manager Placement Engine
ECS
AMI
Docker
agent
ECS
agent
EC2 Instance
ECS
AMI
Docker
agent
ECS
agent
EC2 Instance
ECS
AMI
Docker
agent
ECS
agent
EC2 Instance

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DEMO
https://gitlab.com/ric_harvey/bl_practical_fargate

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CONFIGURATIONS & PRICING

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TASK CPU & MEMORY CONFIGURATIONS
Flexible configuration options –
50 CPU/memory configurations
CPU Memory
256 (.25 vCPU) 512MB*, 1GB, 2GB
512 (.5 vCPU) 1GB to 4GB (1GB increments)
1024 (1 vCPU) 2GB to 8GB (1GB increments)
2048 (2 vCPU) 4GB to 16GB (1GB increments)
4096 (4 vCPU) 8GB to 30GB (1GB increments)

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AVAILABLE NOW!

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Roll your own kubernetes cluster on EC2
Meet luno at Startup Central

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https://github.com/kubernetes/kops

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• Lots of options to run containers in AWS
• ECS
• EKS
• Fargate for ECS
• Roll your own
• Task Level Networking extends VPC’s into containers
• 99.99 SLA
• Service Discovery
• Full CodePipeline integration for ECS
• Production ready and used by Customers Today!
Recap/Highlights

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Some help choosing the right solution
https://bit.ly/2ue4Mji
@nathankpeck

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https://aws.amazon.com/aws-africa/

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https://aws.amazon.com/containers
Ric Harvey
@ric__harvey
THANK YOU