Amazon EC2 Container Service is a new AWS service that makes it easy to run and manage Docker-enabled applications across a cluster of Amazon EC2 instances. EC2 Container Service lets you define, schedule, and stop sets of containers. You have access to the state of your resources, making it easy to confirm that tasks are running or view the utilization of EC2 instances in your cluster. This session will describe the benefits of containers, introduce the EC2 Container Service, and demonstrate how to use EC2 Container Service for your applications.

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Amazon EC2 Container Service:
Manage Docker-Enabled Apps in EC2
Chris Barclay
Amazon EC2 Principal Product Manager, AWS

2. Agenda
Containers
EC2 Container Service
Common patterns
Demo
Q&A

3. Containers

4. What are containers?
OS virtualization
Process isolation
Automation
ImagesServer
Guest OS
Bins/Libs Bins/Libs
App2App1

5. Container advantages
Portable
Server
Guest OS
Bins/Libs Bins/Libs
App2App1

6. Container advantages
Flexible
Server
Guest OS
Bins/Libs Bins/Libs
App2App1

7. Container advantages
Fast
Server
Guest OS
Bins/Libs Bins/Libs
App2App1

8. Container advantages
Efficient
Server
Guest OS
Bins/Libs Bins/Libs
App2App1

9. A container pipeline
IT Operations
Base
Image
PatchesUtilities

10. A container pipeline
IT Operations
Base
Image
PatchesUtilities
Ruby
Redis
Logger

11. A container pipeline
IT Operations Developer
Base
Image
PatchesUtilities
Ruby
Redis
Logger
App

12. A container pipeline
Base
Image
PatchesUtilities
Ruby
Redis
Logger
App
IT Operations Developer

13. Demo

14. Server
Guest OS
Bins/Libs Bins/Libs
App2App1

16. EC2 Container Service Benefits

17. Easily manage clusters for any scale
Nothing to run
Complete state
Control and monitoring
Scale

18. Flexible container placement
Applications
Batch jobs
Multiple schedulers

19. Designed for use with other AWS services
Elastic Load Balancing
Amazon Elastic Block Store
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
AWS Identity and Access Management
AWS CloudTrail

20. Extensible
Comprehensive APIs
Open source agent
Custom schedulers

21. Common Patterns

22. Pattern 1: services and applications
Simple to model
Decompose to smaller (micro) services
Blue/green deployments

23. Pattern 2: batch jobs
Share pools of resources
APIs provide cluster state
Auto Scaling, Spot, Reserved Instances

24. EC2 Container Service Terminology

25. Amazon EC2 instances
Docker daemon
Amazon ECS agent
Key components: container instances

26. Regional
Resource pool
Grouping of container instances
Start empty, dynamically scalable
Key components: clusters

27. Key components: task definitions
Volume Definitions
Container Definitions

28. Key components: task definitions
Shared Data Volume
PHP App Time of day App

29. Key components: task definitions
Container
Instance
Schedule
Shared Data Volume
PHP App Time of day App
Shared Data Volume
PHP
App
Time of
day
App

30. Key components: task definitions
{
"environment": [],
"name": "simple-demo",
"image": "my-demo",
"cpu": 10,
"memory": 500,
"portMappings": [
{
"containerPort": 80,
"hostPort": 80
}
],
"mountPoints": [
{
"sourceVolume": "my-vol",
"containerPath": "/var/www/my-
vol"
}
],
"entryPoint": [
"/usr/sbin/apache2",
"-D",
"FOREGROUND"
],
"essential": true
},
{
"name": "busybox",
"image": "busybox",
"cpu": 10,
"memory": 500,
"volumesFrom": [
{
"sourceContainer": "simple-demo"
}
],
"entryPoint": [
"sh",
"-c"
],
"command": [
"/bin/sh -c "while true; do
/bin/date > /var/www/my-vol/date; sleep 1; done""
],
"essential": false
}

31. {
"environment": [],
"name": "simple-demo",
"image": "amazon/amazon-ecs-sample",
"cpu": 10,
"memory": 500,
"portMappings": [
{
"containerPort": 80,
"hostPort": 80
}
],
"mountPoints": [
{
"sourceVolume": "my-vol",
"containerPath": "/var/www/my-
vol"
}
],
"entryPoint": [
"/usr/sbin/apache2",
"-D",
"FOREGROUND"
],
"essential": true
},
Key components: task definitions
[
{
"image": "mysql",
"name": "db",
"cpu": 10,
"memory": 500,
"essential": true,
"entryPoint": [
"/entrypoint.sh"
],
"environment": [
{
"name": "MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD",
"value": "pass"
}
],
"portMappings": []
}
]
Essential to our task
Create and mount volumes
Expose port 80 in container
to port 80 on host
10 CPU units (1024 is full CPU),
500 megabytes of memory

32. {
"name": "busybox",
"image": "busybox",
"cpu": 10,
"memory": 500,
"volumesFrom": [
{
"sourceContainer": "simple-demo"
}
],
"entryPoint": [
"sh",
"-c"
],
"command": [
"/bin/sh -c "while true; do
/bin/date > /var/www/my-vol/date; sleep 1; done""
],
"essential": false
}
Key components: task definitions
[
{
"image": "tutum/wordpress-stackable",
"name": "wordpress",
"cpu": 10,
"memory": 500,
"essential": true,
"links": [
"db"
],
"entryPoint": [
"/bin/sh",
"-c"
],
"environment": [
…
],
"portMappings": [
{
"containerPort": 80,
"hostPort": 80
}
]
},
]
From Docker Hub
Mount volume from other container
Command to exec

33. Unit of work
Grouping of related containers
Run on container instances
Key components: tasks

34. Key components: run a task
Good for short-lived
containers, for
example batch jobs

35. Key components: create a service
Good for long-
running applications
and services

36. Key components: create a service
Load balance traffic across containers
Automatically recover unhealthy containers
Discover services
Shared Data Volume
PHP
App
Time of
day
App
Shared Data Volume
PHP
App
Time of
day
App
Shared Data Volume
PHP
App
Time of
day
App
Elastic Load Balancing

37. Key components: create a service
Scale up or scale down
Elastic Load Balancing
Shared Data Volume
PHP
App
Time of
day
App
Shared Data Volume
PHP
App
Time of
day
App
Shared Data Volume
PHP
App
Time of
day
App
Shared Data Volume
PHP
App
Time of
day
App

38. Key components: create a service
Deploy new version
Elastic Load Balancing
Shared Data Volume
PHP
App
Time of
day
App
Shared Data Volume
PHP
App
Time of
day
App
Shared Data Volume
PHP
App
Time of
day
App

39. Key components: create a service
Deploy new version
Shared Data Volume
PHP
App
Time of
day
App
Shared Data Volume
PHP
App
Time of
day
App
Shared Data Volume
PHP
App
Time of
day
App
Elastic Load Balancing

40. Key components: create a service
Deploy new version
Shared Data Volume
PHP
App
Time of
day
App
Shared Data Volume
PHP
App
Time of
day
App
Elastic Load Balancing
Shared Data Volume
PHP
App
Time of
day
App

41. Demo

42. Typical user workflow
I want to run a service

43. Typical user workflow
Run Instances Amazon
EC2
Use custom AMI with
Docker support and
ECS Agent. Instances
will register with
default cluster.

44. Typical user workflow
Create Task Definition
Declare resource
requirements for
containers
Shared Data Volume
PHP App
Time of day
App

45. Typical user workflow
Create Service
Declare resource
requirements for
service
Shared Data Volume
PHP App
Time of day
App
Elastic
Load
Balancing
X 5

46. Typical user workflow
Describe Service

47. Q&A

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