Container Orchestration

Container Orchestration

• Automation of all aspects of coordinating and managing containers which includes
  • ​Configuring and scheduling of containers
  • Provisioning and deployments of containers
  • Availability of containers
  • Scaling of containers to equally balance application workloads across infrastructure
  • Allocation of resources between containers
  • load balancing, traffic routing and service discovery of containers
  • Health monitoring of containers
  • Securing the interactions between containers.

Container Orchestration Tools

What is ECS?

• Elastic Container Service
• Highly scalable, high-performance container orchestration service
• Let you host your services in serverless infrastructure
• Fargate - Containers without servers
• Has three main components:
  •  Elastic Container Registry
  •  Clusters
  •  Task Definitions

Some more AWS services

• Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
• Security Groups
• Codepipeline
• VPC
• Cloud Watch for logging
• Load balancer

What is Codepipeline?

• A continuous delivery service to model, visualize, and automate the steps required to release your software.
• Supports zero downtime deployment.