In this session, we will take a deeper look at how to deploy, run and monitor applications deployed in containers to Amazon ECS using AWS CodeDeploy, CodePipeline and Amazon ECR. We will start by deploying to ECS with Amazon EC2 instances, and then show how using AWS Fargate simplifies the process.

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Getting started on AWS with Amazon ECS
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Cobus Bernard
Sr Developer Advocate
Amazon Web Services
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Agenda
Creating a cluster
Deploy using Amazon CodePipeline
Using Amazon EC2 hosts vs AWS Fargate
Capacity Providers
Autoscaling using Spot and On-Demand
Q&A

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Infrastructure required
Subnet
Subnet
VPC
Availability Zone
US-EAST-1A
Subnet
Subnet
Availability Zone
US-EAST-1C

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m4.xlarge Spot
Weight of 1
m4.2xlarge Spot
Weight of 2
m4.4xlarge On-Demand
Weight of 4
Availability
Zone 1
Availability
Zone 2
Availability
Zone 3
Different
instance types
contribute
differently to
total capacity
Now: Spot, On-Demand, and RIs in a single ASG with weights

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API parameters
"MixedInstancesPolicy": {
"LaunchTemplate": {
"LaunchTemplateSpecification": {
"LaunchTemplateName": "MyLaunchTemplate"
},
"Overrides": [
{
"InstanceType": "m4.xLarge",
"WeightedCapacity": "1"
},
{
"InstanceType": "m4.2xLarge",
"WeightedCapacity": "2"
},
{
"InstanceType": "m4.4xLarge",
"WeightedCapacity": "4"
}
]
},
"InstancesDistribution": {
"OnDemandAllocationStrategy": "prioritized",
"OnDemandBaseCapacity": 10,
"OnDemandPercentageAboveBaseCapacity": 50,
"SpotAllocationStrategy": “capacity-optimized",
"SpotInstancePools": 2
}
}
AZ1 and AZ2
Desired
Min
Max
On-Demand base
50% On-Demand
50% Spot
Minimum On-Demand (10)

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9. ECS
agent
Docker
agent
OS
Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud
(Amazon EC2) instance
ECS
agent
Docker
agent
OS
EC2 instance
ECS
agent
Docker
agent
OS
EC2 instance
Amazon Elastic Container Service
(Amazon ECS)

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11. Thank you!
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Cobus Bernard
Sr Developer Advocate
Amazon Web Services
@cobusbernard
cobusbernard
cobusbernard