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AWS Automation Cookbook

You're reading from   AWS Automation Cookbook Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment using AWS services

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788394925
Length 388 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nikit Swaraj Nikit Swaraj
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Preface 1. Using AWS CodeCommit FREE CHAPTER 2. Building an Application using CodeBuild 3. Deploying Application using CodeDeploy & CodePipeline 4. Building Scalable and Fault-Tolerant CI/CD Pipeline 5. Understanding Microservices and ECS 6. Continuous Deployment to ECS Using Developer Tools and CloudFormation 7. IaC Using CloudFormation and Ansible 8. Automating AWS Resource Control Using AWS Lambda 9. Microservice Applications in Kubernetes Using Jenkins Pipeline 2.0 10. Best Practices and Troubleshooting Tips

Understanding ECS and writing task definitions and services

Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) is a container orchestration service. It is highly scalable and a fast container management service that helps manage a containerized application that is deployed in the cluster of EC2 instances. Basically, Amazon ECS lets you launch and stop container-based applications with simple API calls and allows you to get the state of your cluster from a centralized service. It also gives you access to many familiar Amazon EC2 features. ECS handles fault tolerance by itself, which means we don’t have to worry about that when designing our infrastructure using ECS.

Amazon ECS takes care of container running inside the cluster. It schedules the placement of containers across your cluster, based on your resource needs and availability requirements. ECS eliminates the worry about scaling...

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