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Docker on Amazon Web Services

You're reading from   Docker on Amazon Web Services Build, deploy, and manage your container applications at scale

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788626507
Length 822 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Justin Menga Justin Menga
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Container and Docker Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 2. Building Applications Using Docker 3. Getting Started with AWS 4. Introduction to ECS 5. Publishing Docker Images Using ECR 6. Building Custom ECS Container Instances 7. Creating ECS Clusters 8. Deploying Applications Using ECS 9. Managing Secrets 10. Isolating Network Access 11. Managing ECS Infrastructure Life Cycle 12. ECS Auto Scaling 13. Continuously Delivering ECS Applications 14. Fargate and ECS Service Discovery 15. Elastic Beanstalk 16. Docker Swarm in AWS 17. Elastic Kubernetes Service 18. Assessments 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Provisioning secrets using CloudFormation


You have created a secret in AWS Secrets Manager and have added support for injecting secrets securely into your containers using an entrypoint script. Recall that the entrypoint script looks for an environment variable called SECRETS, and the ApplicationTaskDefinition and MigrateTaskDefinition resources in your CloudFormation template for the todobackend stack are currently injecting the application database directly. In order to support using secrets in your stack, you need to configure your ECS task definitions to include the SECRETS environment variable, configured with the name(s) of your secrets, and you also need to ensure your container have appropriate IAM permissions to retrieve and decrypt your secrets.

Another consideration is how the password for your ApplicationDatabase resource is configured—this is currently configured to use a password input via stack parameters; however, your database now needs to be able to somehow obtain its password...

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