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Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)

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Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)

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(bright music) - Now you know what a container is and why containers are beneficial, we're going to start going into some detail on the Amazon Elastic Container Service, ECS. Amazon ECS is the service we use for managing containers in AWS. So let's have a look at the architecture. In this case, we are going to run across multiple availability zones for high availability, and what we're going to do is through ECS, we create an ECS cluster. A cluster is a logical grouping of tasks or services. So what are those components? Well, firstly, you have the task. Now you can think of a task as a running Docker container. So task and container are very, very similar. They're pretty much the same. Now, how do we configure our tasks? Well, we have a file called a task definition. The task definition contains some information about the task. We can see here, for instance, we have a container definition, and the name of this task, the image that it's going to pull is WordPress, and it has a link to…

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