Deepak Vohra - Amazon Fargate Quick Start Guide: Learn how to use AWS Fargate to run containers with ease

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Deepak Vohra is consultant and principle a member of the NuBean software company. He is a Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) and Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD) and has worked in the fields of XML, Java programming, and J2EE for over 10 years. He is the coauthor of the Apress book Pro XML Development with Java Technology. Deepak is the author of several Packt Publishing books, including Processing XML documents with Oracle JDeveloper 11g and Java EE Developmentwith Eclipse. Deepak is also a Docker Mentor and has published four other Docker-related books.

Andrey Zhmaylik is a polyglot systems architect working in Ziftsolutions for Oxford, UK. He has more than 10 years of software development experience with various technology stacks and across different roles in the industry, from software development engineering to leading development teams.

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At AWS re:Invent 2017, a new launch type for containers called Fargate was announced. This book is about Amazon Fargate, the new launch type for the Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) for Docker containers.

Docker is the de factostandard containerization framework that has revolutionized packaging and deployment of software. Amazon Fargate has made the ECS platform serverless; no EC2 instances to provision, run, or manage. Amazon Fargate runs ECS services on Docker containers and exposes the service tasks directly to the user. Fargate has much simplified the ECS platform by making it serverless.

Amazon Fargate provides the following benefits:

• It's s upported on AWS ECS, with support to be added on AWS EKS
• It's f ully integrated with the other AWS services, including IAM, CloudWatch Logs, and EC2 Load Balancing
• Amazon Fargate is serverless and reduces management of ECS clusters; no EC2 instances to provision, create, or manage
• ECS service tasks are directly exposed to user
• An Elastic Network Interface is created for each task
• There's support for the auto scaling of ECS tasks
• An ECS CLI is provided to create ECS clusters and deploy tasks with Docker Compose

Instead of launching ECS clusters on EC2 instances, Amazon Fargate launches clusters on the Fargate platform.

The primary audience is Docker users and developers. Also, if you occupy any of the following roles, you will find this book useful:

• DevOps architect
• Docker specialist
• DevOps engineer (Docker)

, Getting Started with Amazon ECS and Amazon Fargate , is an introductory chapter in which we discuss the benefits of using the Fargate launch type, how compute resources are distributed and configured with Fargate launch type, the ECS objects in Fargate that are the same as for the EC2 launch type, and the new features in Fargate.

, Networking , introduces the Fargate launch type as used with an ECS cluster. We will create a cluster, including container, task, and service definitions, using a Hello World Docker image. Subsequently, we will invoke the Hello World application using the IPv4 Public IP of the Elastic Network Interface associated with a task.

, Using CloudWatch Logs, discusses configuring an ECS container for logging. We demonstrated CloudWatch Logs using an ECS service for MySQL database. The only supported log driver for the Fargate launch type is the awslogs driver.