Docker with the Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Docker is a technology to build, run, test, and deploy distributed applications, easily and quickly on Linux-based containers. In Docker, your application will be packaged with all of its dependencies, into a standardized unit. This standardized unit is known as a container. This container includes system tools, libraries, and code to run the applications. You can scale and deploy applications in any environment and know that your code will run.
It helps users by providing highly reliable and low-cost ways to build, run, test, and deploy the distributed applications, at any scale, by running Docker on AWS. Docker comes in two licensing models: subscription-based Docker Enterprise Edition (EE), open source Docker Community Edition (CE), and AWS supports both these models.
It provides a few benefits such as:
- Docker users ship software 13 times more frequently than non-Docker users because developers will ship only isolated services as...
