In this course, you learn how to manage applications at scale on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). You learn how to select the best method for building an Amazon ECS environment, how to select the best deployment options for your application, and how to manage your application pipelines throughout your applications’ lifecycle.
- Course level: Advanced
- Duration: 90 minutes
Activities
This course includes interactive lessons and knowledge checks.
Course objectives
In this course, you learn to:
- Select the correct method for deploying an Amazon ECS environment based on your needs.
- Manage your application pipeline according to best practices for performance, security, and resilience.
Intended audience
This course is intended for:
- Cloud architects
- DevOps engineers
- Operations staff
- Developers
Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees of this course have:
- Working knowledge of containers and Amazon ECS
- Previous experience deploying simple applications on Amazon ECS
- Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Primer
- Building Enterprise Architectures in Amazon ECS
Course outline
Module 1: Preparing Your Environment to Run Containers
- Reviewing your Infrastructure Requirements
- Infrastructure Deployment Options
- AWS CloudFormation
- AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)
- AWS Copilot
- AWS Proton
- Choosing the Right Tool
Module 2: Deploying Applications
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) Best Practices
- Different Ways to Build and Deploy
- Application Deployment Patterns
- Rolling Deployments
- Blue/Green Deployments
- Optimizing Your Deployment Configurations
