AWS Container Services – ECS ECR with Fargate and EC2

Elastic Container Registry (ECR)

• Create ECR repository
• Build Image, Push to the repository
• Tag Images
• Scanning Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) using CoreOS Clair project
• Marking image for Immutability in ECR

Elastic Container Service (ECS) – Fully managed container orchestration service.

• ECS cluster management with EC2 and Fargate provisioning
• Integration of ECS with IAM
• EC2 provisioning with On-Demand and spot instances
• Using images from ECR
• Scaling of ECR Cluster
• Scaling of Services by increasing and decreasing tasks
• Using Spot instance to optimize cost
• Leverage capacity providers for cost optimization and High Availability
• Leverage serverless option with Fargate
• Deploy high available ECS cluster with task distributed across Availability Zones
• Deploy ECS in custom created VPC
• Setup AWS ENI Trunking
• Integration with AWS App Mesh
• Service Discovery with inbuild options

Cluster Management

• Create and Manage ECS Clusters
• Creating Task definition
• Updating Task definition and create a newer version
• Configure ECS cluster capacity providers
• Monitoring cluster performance in Cloudwatch

Tasks Management

• Creating and managing tasks
• Creating scheduled tasks
• Deploying tasks using various deployment and placement types
• Bin packed and Availability zone distributed tasks

Service Management

• Managing Services
• Creating rolling and blue-green deployments
• Leveraging service discovery using Route 53