Menga - Docker on Amazon Web Services: build, deploy, and manage your container applications at scale

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Justin Menga is a full-stack technologist with over 20 years experience of working with organizations to build large-scale applications and platforms, with a focus on end-to-end application architecture, the cloud, continuous delivery, and infrastructure automation. Justin started his career as an infrastructure and network engineer/architect, working with many large enterprise and service provider customers. In the past few years, Justin has switched his focus to building applications and full-service platforms, working with a wide array of technologies, yet still maintaining and applying his prior infrastructure and network expertise to containers and public clouds. He has programmed in Objective C, C#, ASP.NET, JavaScript, Scala, Python, Java, and Go, and has a keen interest in continuous delivery, Docker, and automation tools that speed the path from development to production.

Rickard von Essen works as a continuous delivery and cloud consultant at Diabol. He helps companies deliver faster, improve continuously, and worry less. In his spare time, he helps maintain Packer and contributes to numerous other FOSS projects. He has been tinkering with Linux and BSD since the late 1990s, and has been hacking since the Amiga era. He lives with his wife and two children in Stockholm, Sweden, and he has a Master of Computer Science and Engineering from Linkoping University.

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Welcome to Docker on Amazon Web Services! I'm very excited to have written this book and to share how to leverage the wonderful technologies that the Docker and Amazon Web Services (AWS) ecosystems provide to build truly world-class solutions for deploying and operating your applications in production.

Docker has become the modern standard for building, packaging, publishing, and operating applications, leveraging the power of containers to increase the speed of application delivery, increase security, and reduce costs. This book will show you how to supercharge your process of building Docker applications, using the best practices of continuous delivery to provide a fully automated, consistent, reliable, and portable workflow for testing, building, and publishing your Docker applications. In my view, this is a fundamental prerequisite before you even consider deploying your application to the cloud, and the first few chapters will focus on establishing a local Docker environment and creating a local continuous delivery workflow for a sample application that we will be using throughout the book.

AWS is the world's leading public cloud provider, and provides a rich set of solutions for managing and operating your Docker applications. This book will cover all of the major services that AWS provides to support Docker and containers, including the Elastic Container Service (ECS), Fargate, Elastic Beanstalk, and Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and also will discuss how you can leverage the Docker for AWS solution provided by Docker Inc to deploy Docker Swarm clusters.

Running a complete application environment in AWS comprises much more than your container platform, and this book will also describe best practices for managing access to your AWS account and leveraging other AWS services to support the requirements of your applications. For example, you will learn how to set up AWS application load balancers to publish highly available, load-balanced endpoints for your application, create AWS