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Amazon Elastic Container Service(ECS)

Updated: Mar 7

Old tutorial blog. Deploy a Container Web App on Amazon ECS - OLD UI. Use this blog instead, for NEW UI.


Objectives:

  1. Learn To deploy a containerized application on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS).

  2. Learn Create the infrastructure to run your container with ECS

Step 1:

  • In AWS Management Console, go to ECS from search bar.

Step 2:

  • Here, we need to create a Cluster. Click on GET STARTED.

Step 3: From Container definition select sample-app and click on Edit. Scroll down to Advanced container configuration.

Step 4: Paste the following script in Command section from Environment

/bin/sh -c "echo '<html> <head> <title>Amazon ECS Sample App</title><style>body {margin-top: 40px; background-color: #333;} </style></head><body> <div style=color:white;text-align:center> <h1>Welcome toCloud-PlusPlus</h1> <h2>Congratulations! This is Amazon ECS</h2> <p>Yourapplication is now running on a container in Amazon ECS.</p></div></body></html>' >/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/index.html && httpd-foreground"

Keep the rest default and scroll down and click on update.


Step 5: Select Application Load Balancer and keep rest as it is. Click on next.

Step 6: Name your cluster, in this case "ECSDemo" and click next.

Step 7:Review the configuration and Click on Create. Here, the cluster is getting launched. Wait till the services are complete.

Click on view services.

Step 8: The Cluster is Created. Now, select Tasks and click on the first task i.e. the Container from Task status.

Step 9: Here you can review the details of your Container. Scroll down to Network and copy the Public IP.

Step 10: Paste the Public IP in the new window.


Note: If you no longer need the Cluster, delete the Cluster. Also deregister the task from Task definition at left panel from Amazon ECS.




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Atchaya B
Atchaya B
Apr 10

This blog helps to understand the concept of Amazon elastic container service.

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Easy to follow the concept of Amazon elastic container service

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Gokulnath
Gokulnath
Apr 09

Learnt to use the Amazon Elastic Container Service.

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This blog makes it easier to follow the concept of Amazon Elastic Container Service.


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Gokul M
Gokul M
Apr 08

Very easy to understand the ECS

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