Summary

From the beginning of this chapter, our aim has been to be able to use Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights to perform monitoring and logging. We first started by talking about the different container orchestration services provided by AWS, which are Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS. We then went further to explore some of the features of ECS and the different launch types that exist within Amazon ECS, which are the EC2 instance launch type and Fargate. We looked at how the monitoring of containers/applications works in ECS. It involves activating the awslogs driver during the process of adding a container on ECS. This will make the log driver automatically pull logs from the container and send it over to CloudWatch Logs and CloudWatch Container Insights, which gives logs and metrics for both container applications and the components running the containers.

We then moved on to Amazon EKS, which is another container orchestration service in AWS. We explained what EKS means and...