Managing Applications at Scale with Amazon ECS

This lab will help the student understand the design decisions to address scaling issues and strategies of their Amazon Elastic Container Service applications and infrastructure.

Level

Advanced

Duration

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Manage task definitions
• Manage images using Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR)
• Deploy an application using Amazon ECS
• Configure Amazon EC2 auto scaling group capacity providers
• Work with Amazon ECS managed scaling
• Observe scaling by load testing the application

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Architects
• Developers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• Basic navigation of the AWS Management Console
• Editing scripts using a text editor
  
  
  

Course Outline

• Task 1: Review the task definition and Amazon ECR image
• Task 2: Deploy AnyCookie application using Amazon ECS
• Task 3: Create Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Group capacity providers
• Task 4: Work with Amazon ECS managed scaling
• Task 5: Add load to test and observe scaling