Learn to Deploy Containers on AWS in 2022

Name: Learn to Deploy Containers on AWS in 2022
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Choosing the right AWS service to deploy your containerized applications

Created byManoj Fernando

Last updated 3/2022

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What you'll learn

How to deploy containerized applications on AWS
How to pick the right service for your use-case
Understanding pros and cons of new AWS services for containerized applications
Hands-on experience on every service discussed in the course

Course content

4 sections • 33 lectures • 4h 11m total length

Introduction0:44

Introduction0:22
Deploy containerized web applications and web apps using AWS Amplify, a rapidly developing full-stack framework. Explore Amplify components and focus on the Amplify CLA to implement scalable deployments.
Using Amplify CLI to deploy containers1:03
Explore deploying containers on AWS with Amplify CLI by provisioning serverless containers and pushing changes to configure VPC, API gateway, and a container registry through a serverless build pipeline.
Why is it important to understand first?0:37
Evolution of containers and serverless functions - (A Refresher)2:02
Containers Vs. AWS Lambda Functions1:55
Where to deploy containers on AWS?3:07
Resources0:01
Web API Concerns1:21
Explore how to expose docker containerized APIs to front-end applications on AWS, ensuring low-latency access and auto scaling, while offloading authorization to the API layer to keep business logic clean.
AWS Networking (Refresher)0:37
Approach 01 - Using Amazon ECS, Fargate and ALB to serve container workloads3:53
Approach 02 - Using Amazon ECS, Fargate, CloudMap, Cognito and API Gateway3:50
Configure a vpc with subnets, deploy ecs fargate services, and route traffic via api gateway with a vpc link; use cloud map for service discovery and cognito for access control.
How to install and configure AWS Amplify CLI?0:02
Initializing an Amplify project2:17
Initialize an Amplify project to scaffold a serverless container workflow, then build and containerize an Express API, and serve it through the container using the build and start commands.
Configuring the project to use containers1:39
Adding Dockerfile and docker-compose file2:39
Express.js API with TypeScript5:18
Create an Express.js API with TypeScript, set up folders and tsconfig, install types, define a get route, enable CORS, compile to JavaScript, and run locally that returns hello from container.
How to install Docker?0:07
Dockerizing the Express API4:00
Deploying to AWS with Amplify1:35
AWS Resources Walkthrough5:14
Explore the AWS resources walkthrough, including the VPC with public subnets and internet gateway, the Amplify cluster, and API gateway with a VPC link using Cloud Map for container IPs.
A Note on the Operational Costs0:31
Understand how container architectures incur costs for uptime, unlike lambda's per-invocation pricing. Learn why containers stay running and how you are charged until the container is down.
Section wrap up0:22
Delete the entire stack and all resources after testing to avoid charges. Learn practical cleanup steps for deploying containers on AWS in 2022 to finish safely.

Introduction0:42
AWS App Runner features3:14
Explore how AWS App Runner automates load balancing and auto scaling, while providing cost management insights, automatic deployment, certificate management for custom domains, and VPC-based private networking.
More about App Runner Service1:17
Learn how AWS App Runner delivers a fully managed container deployment, using GitHub builds or ECR images, with automatic deployments and VPC access to databases, API gateways, and load balancers.
App Runner Pricing0:41
Auto Scaling in App Runner2:06
Explore auto scaling in App Runner by configuring minimum and maximum container instances, defining concurrency, and dynamically scaling up from two to four, then down as traffic falls.
Demo: AWS App Runner Console Walkthrough6:24
Clone the repo0:01
https://github.com/mjzone/cdk-apprunner-demo
Demo: AWS App Runner with CDK13:55

Requirements

Basic understanding about cloud computing

Description

This is the era of serverless containers and serverless functions. Many businesses have already embraced public cloud platforms like AWS to deploy their production applications that are built on serverless architectures. Therefore, as developers, we must be familiar with the deployment aspects of containers and functions to serverless cloud architectures.

In this course, you will receive hands-on experience on how to deploy container workloads to the AWS cloud platform.

We will also discuss how to use AWS Amplify CLI to simplify the container deployment process while learning ins and outs of the architectures that the containers get deployed to. You will learn how to configure the network architecture to securely deploy containers and how to expose your containers to the outside world using Load Balancers and API Gateways.

After the introduction section, you will two main approaches to deploying containers with Amazon ECS at scale.

Approach 01 - How to use Amazon ECS, AWS Fargate, and Application Load Balancer for container workload management
Approach 02 - How to use Amazon ECS, AWS Fargate, API Gateway, and Cloud Map for container workload management

You will also understand the basics of,

Service discovery
Container auto-scaling and load balancing
Virtual network setup
Security considerations

Next, we will also discuss the AWS App Runner service which was recently released by AWS. It helps us to deploy containers at a low cost preventing the compute cost for idle containers. In this section, we will learn both theories and practicals about AWS App Runner.

I have also included an Additional Content section which includes crash courses from my YouTube channel. These videos help you to understand Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloud Development Kit(CDK) which we commonly use when working with containers.

Hope you'll enjoy this course. Let me know if you have any concerns.

Happy Learning!

- Manoj

Who this course is for:

Developers who are interested in deploying containers on AWS cloud platform

Learn to Deploy Containers on AWS in 2022

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 1min

AWS Amplify: Deploying containerized web apps22 lectures • 43min

AWS App Runner: Deploying containers at low cost8 lectures • 28min

Additional Content2 lectures • 3hr

Requirements

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