Learn about Amazon ECS, the native AWS container management service. ECS an easy way to run Docker containers on AWS. AWS runs and maintains the orchestration software, handles scaling and simplifies the process. In this DevTalk, you'll get an introduction to the ECS terms and concepts. We'll cover the ECS ecosystem and list some of the tools in the space. Then we'll jump into a demo using an ECS deploy tool called ufo. As a bonus, we'll talk about the strategies to optimize costs with ECS.

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Getting Started with ECS: An Easy Way
to Run Docker Containers on AWS
Tung Nguyen
President
BoltOps
DEV07

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Tung Nguyen
tung@boltops.com
linkedin.com/in/tongueroo
youtube.com/tongueroo
@tongueroo
sonic
swiss-army knife
jack
elastic beanstalk
ufo
ecs deploy
lono
cloudformation
framework
jets
ruby serverless
framework
Background

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Docker Reasons

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What is ECS?
Easiest way to run docker containers on AWS

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ECS Terms
● Cluster
● Container Instance
● Service
● Task
● Task Definition

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ECS Terms
● Cluster
● Container Instance
● Service
● Task
● Task Definition

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ECS Task Definition Structure

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ECS Task Definition Structure
$ docker run tongueroo/demo -name web -p 3000 -e
KEY1=VALUE1 bin/web

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What We Need to Deploy to ECS
1. Builds a Docker Image
2. Builds and Registers ECS Task Definition
3. Deploys it to ECS

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UFO: ECS Deploy Tool
1. Builds Docker Image
2. Registers Task Definition
3. Deploys to ECS
ufo
ecs deploy

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● silinternational/ecs-deploy (bash)
● broadside (ruby)
● ufo ship (ruby)
● More: https://github.com/nathanpeck/awesome-ecs
ECS Deploy Tools
ufo

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ECS Task Definition Structure

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UFO Builds Task Definition from a Template

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Task Definition All Together

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UFO: Run In Steps
1. ufo docker build ; ufo docker push
2. ufo tasks build ; ufo tasks register
3. ufo deploy demo-web
● run each step if you want
ufo
ecs deploy

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● ufo ship demo-web
● or you can use `ufo ship` to run it altogether
ufo
ecs deploy
ufo ship command

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Demo Time
ufo
ecs deploy

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ECS Demo Review...

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UFO Demo Review
1. Builds Docker Image
2. Registers Task Definition
3. Deploys to ECS
ufo
ecs deploy

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UFO Demo Review
To deploy run: ufo ship
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● Created ELB,TargetGroup,Route53 Record
UFO Demo Review
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# create
for i in {1..10}; do UFO_ENV_EXTRA=$i ufo deploy --no-wait ; done
# verify
for i in {1..10}; do
curl -s $(UFO_ENV_EXTRA=$i ufo ps | grep 'Elb:'| awk'{print $2}') | sed "s/^/$i: /"| sed "s/$/n/"&
done | cat | sort -n
# cleanup
for i in {1..10} ; do echo $i ; UFO_ENV_EXTRA=$i ufo destroy --no-wait --sure ; done
UFO Demo Review

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UFO Demo Review

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Spot Instances Great for ECS

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Tung Nguyen
tung@boltops.com
linkedin.com/in/tongueroo
youtube.com/tongueroo
@tongueroo
sonic
swiss-army knife
jack
elastic beanstalk
ufo
ecs deployment
lono
cloudformation
framework
jets
ruby serverless
framework
Thanks!