In this session, we cover all options for running containers on AWS. This includes an introduction of container concepts and an overview of the different services: Amazon Elastic Container Service, AWS Fargate, and Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes. We also cover best practices for how to choose the right orchestration platform for your workload, the different tools for making this process easier, and ways to find more information and support as you work.

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Containers on AWS: An Introduction
David Curd
Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
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Kevin McCandless
Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services

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Agenda
Containers Overview
Container Orchestration
AWS Container Landscape
AWS Marketplace for Containers

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First things first…
What are containers and why
are customers using them?

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Application environment components
Runtime
Engine
Code
Dependencies Configuration

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Local Laptop Staging / QA Production On-Prem
Different environments

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Local Laptop Staging / QA Production On-Prem
v6.0.0 v7.0.0 v4.0.0 v7.0.0
It worked on my machine, why not in prod?

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Runtime Engine
Code
Dependencies
Docker to the rescue

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Server (Host)
Host OS
Hypervisor
App 2
Guest OS Guest OS Guest OS
Bins/Libs Bins/Libs Bins/Libs
App 1
App 2
App 3
VM
Server (Host)
Host OS
Docker
Bins/Libs Bins/Libs Bins/Libs
App 1 App 2 App 3
Container
Virtual machine versus Docker

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Docker container image
Read only image that is used as a
template to launch a container.
Start from base images that have
your dependencies, add your
custom code.
Docker file for easy,
reproducible builds.
bootfs
kernel
Base image
Image
Image
Container
References
parent
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Local Laptop Staging / QA Production On-Prem
Four environments, same container

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Container and Docker benefits
Better resource utilizationRun different apps simultaneouslyRuns reliably everywhere

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Containers made it easy to build and scale
cloud-native applications

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Running one container is easy

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Running many containers is hard
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What are container orchestration tools?
Frameworks for managing, scaling, and deploying containers
Amazon Elastic
Container Service

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Open source container
management platform
Helps you run
containers at scale
Gives you primitives
for building modern
applications
What is Kubernetes?

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Community, contribution, choice

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But where you run Kubernetes matters
Quality of the
cloud platform
Quality of the
applications
Your users

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Make AWS the BEST PLACE to run ANY
containerized applications

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AWS Container Services
Management
Deployment, scheduling, scaling, &
management of containerized
applications
Hosting
Where the containers run
Amazon Elastic
Container Service
Amazon Elastic
Container Service for
Kubernetes
(Amazon EKS)
Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud
AWS Fargate
Image registry
Container image repository
Amazon Elastic
Container Registry

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Containers: Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Fargate
• Platforms to run containerized applications on AWS
• Easily run and scale applications to meet your needs
• Native integration with other AWS services
• Pairs well with CI/CD
• Benefits
• Portability
• Control
• Rich ecosystem

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63%
of container
workloads run
on AWS today*
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AWS Container Services Adoption

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Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Container-level networking
…{ }
Advanced task placement
Deep integration with AWS platform
Amazon ECS CLI
Global footprint
Powerful scheduling engines
Automatic scaling
Amazon CloudWatch metrics
Load balancers

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Scheduling and Orchestration
Cluster Manager Placement EngineAmazon ECS

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With Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), you end up managing more
than just containers
EC2 Instance
ECS
Agent
Docker
Agent
OS

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- Patching and Upgrading OS, agents, etc.
- Scaling the instance fleet for optimal utilization

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Amazon ECS

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Enter AWS Fargate
Launch quickly &
scale easily
No infrastructure
Resource-based
pricing
Manage everything at
container level

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Enter AWS Fargate
Managed by AWS
No Amazon EC2 Instances to provision, scale, or manage
Elastic
Scale up & down seamlessly. Pay only for what you use
Integrated
with the AWS services: VPC Networking, Elastic Load
Balancing, IAM Permissions, CloudWatch and more

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AWS Fargate
run serverless containers
Amazon ECS

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Amazon ECS end-to-end

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Amazon Elastic Container Services for Kubernetes
(Amazon EKS)
Container-level networking
…{ }
Managed etcd and masters
Deep integration with AWS platform
Kubernetes APIs
Kubernetes ecosystem
Timely upgrades
Highly available masters
Certified Kubernetes

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51%
of Kubernetes
workloads run
on AWS today*
* https://www.cncf.io/blog/2018/08/29/cncf-survey-use-of-cloud-native-technologies-in-production-has-grown-over-200-percent//

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How does Amazon EKS work?

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Amazon EKS High Availability Control Plane
Availability
Zone 1
Etcd
Master Master
Availability
Zone 2
Availability
Zone 3
Master
AWS Managed
Customer
Account
Etcd Etcd

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Amazon EKS Usage Scenario
mycluster.eks.amazonaws.comKubectl
Availability
Zone 1
Availability
Zone 2
Availability
Zone 3

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So you want to run a (managed) container on AWS?
AMAZON CONTAINER SERVICES
Choose your orchestration tool1
Choose your launch type2
ECS EKS
EC2 Fargate EC2 Fargate
Coming
soon!

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Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR)
…{ }
Deep integration with AWS platform
Integrated with Amazon ECS and Docker CLI
Scalable and highly available
100 percent cloud-based Docker container registry

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CI/CD Tooling

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Service Mesh & Discovery
• Service mesh for application
level networking
• Observability & traffic
control
• Works across clusters and
container services
• AWS built and run
• Service discovery for all your
cloud resources
• Increase developer
productivity
• Integration with Amazon
container services
AWS
Cloud
Map

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AWS Marketplace for Containers
• Adding Docker-compliant container
images as a new fulfillment option
• Container product images ingested and
scanned from seller repositories
• Free, BYOL, and usage-based pricing
models
• Products run on Amazon ECS and
Amazon EKS using seller-provided
templates

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Getting started
• Containers on AWS
• https://aws.amazon.com/containers/
• Documentation
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ecs/index.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/index.html
• Blogs
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/tag/containers/
• Videos

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Workshops
From @brentcontained
http://ecsworkshop.com
http://eksworkshop.com

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The awesome-ECS project
https://github.com/nathanpeck/awesome-ecs

50. Thank you!
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David Curd
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Kevin McCandless
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