AWS April Webinar Series - Getting Started with Amazon EC2 Container Service

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Amazon EC2 Container Service:

Manage Docker-Enabled Apps in EC2Chris Barclay

Principal Product Manager

Agenda

Containers

EC2 Container Service

Common patterns

Demo

Q&A

Containers

What are containers?

OS virtualization

Process isolation

Images

Automation Server

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Bins/Libs Bins/Libs

App2App1

Container advantages

Portable

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Container advantages

Flexible

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Container advantages

Fast

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Container advantages

Efficient

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App2App1

A container pipeline

IT Operations

Base

Image

PatchesUtilities

A container pipeline

IT Operations

Base

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PatchesUtilities

Ruby

Redis

Logger

A container pipeline

IT Operations Developer

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App

A container pipeline

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EC2 Container Service Benefits

Easily Manage Clusters for Any Scale

Nothing to run

Complete state

Control and monitoring

Scale

Flexible Container Placement

Applications

Batch jobs

Multiple schedulers

Designed for use with other AWS services

Elastic Load Balancing

Amazon Elastic Block Store

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

AWS Identity and Access Management

AWS CloudTrail

Extensible

Comprehensive APIs

Open source agent

Custom schedulers

Common Patterns

Pattern 1: Services and applications

Simple to model

Micro services

Blue / green deployments

Phong Nguyen, Founder at Gilt

Groupe, said, "As we Dockerize

all our services, it is very

important for us to have a

platform that can help us speed

up deployments, automate our

services, and gain greater

efficiencies. The new service

scheduler and ELB integration

make Amazon ECS an excellent

platform for our services.”

Pattern 2: Batch jobs

Share resource pools

Ideal for bursty jobs

Spot instances

“We required a solution on which

we could securely and efficiently

deploy Docker containers to

encapsulate learner

programming assignment

submissions,” said Brennan

Saeta, Architect at Coursera. “We

are using Amazon EC2 Container

Service to power our new

programming assignments

infrastructure for next-generation

On-Demand course platform.”

EC2 Container Service Terminology

Amazon EC2 instances

Docker daemon

Amazon ECS agent

Key Components: Container Instances

Regional

Resource pool

Grouping of Container Instances

Start empty, dynamically scalable

Key Components: Clusters

Key Components: Task Definitions

Volume Definitions

Container Definitions

Key Components: Task Definitions

Shared Data Volume

PHP App Time of day App

Key Components: Task Definitions{

"environment": [],

"name": "simple-demo",

"image": "my-demo",

"cpu": 10,

"memory": 500,

"portMappings": [

{

"containerPort": 80,

"hostPort": 80

}

],

"mountPoints": [

{

"sourceVolume": "my-vol",

"containerPath": "/var/www/my-

vol"

}

],

"entryPoint": [

"/usr/sbin/apache2",

"-D",

"FOREGROUND"

],

"essential": true

},

{

"name": "busybox",

"image": "busybox",

"cpu": 10,

"memory": 500,

"volumesFrom": [

{

"sourceContainer": "simple-demo"

}

],

"entryPoint": [

"sh",

"-c"

],

"command": [

"/bin/sh -c \"while true; do

/bin/date > /var/www/my-vol/date; sleep 1; done\""

],

"essential": false

}

{

"environment": [],

"name": "simple-demo",

"image": "my-demo",

"cpu": 10,

"memory": 500,

"portMappings": [

{

"containerPort": 80,

"hostPort": 80

}

],

"mountPoints": [

{

"sourceVolume": "my-vol",

"containerPath": "/var/www/my-

vol"

}

],

"entryPoint": [

"/usr/sbin/apache2",

"-D",

"FOREGROUND"

],

"essential": true

},

Key Components: Task Definitions[

{

"image": "mysql",

"name": "db",

"cpu": 10,

"memory": 500,

"essential": true,

"entryPoint": [

"/entrypoint.sh"

],

"environment": [

{

"name": "MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD",

"value": "pass"

}

],

"portMappings": []

}

]

Essential to our Task

Create and mount volumes

Expose port 80 in container

to port 80 on host

10 CPU Units (1024 is full CPU),

500 Megabytes of Memory

{

"name": "busybox",

"image": "busybox",

"cpu": 10,

"memory": 500,

"volumesFrom": [

{

"sourceContainer": "simple-demo"

}

],

"entryPoint": [

"sh",

"-c"

],

"command": [

"/bin/sh -c \"while true; do

/bin/date > /var/www/my-vol/date; sleep 1; done\""

],

"essential": false

}

Key Components: Task Definitions[

{

"image": "tutum/wordpress-stackable",

"name": "wordpress",

"cpu": 10,

"memory": 500,

"essential": true,

"links": [

"db"

],

"entryPoint": [

"/bin/sh",

"-c"

],

"environment": [

…

],

"portMappings": [

{

"containerPort": 80,

"hostPort": 80

}

]

},

]

From Docker Hub

Mount volume from other container

Command to exec

Key Components: Tasks

Container

Instance

Schedule

Shared Data Volume

PHP App Time of day App

Shared Data Volume

PHP AppTime of

day App

Unit of work

Grouping of related Containers

Run on Container Instances

Key Components: Tasks

Key Components: Run a task

Good for short-lived

containers, e.g.

batch jobs

Key Components: Create a Service

Good for long-

running applications

and services

Key Components: Create Service

Load Balance traffic across containers

Automatically recover unhealthy containers

Discover services

Shared Data Volume

PHP

App

Time of

day

App

Shared Data Volume

PHP

App

Time of

day

App

Shared Data Volume

PHP

App

Time of

day

App

Elastic Load Balancing

Key Components: Update Service

Scale up

Scale down

Elastic Load Balancing

Shared Data Volume

PHP

App

Time of

day

App

Shared Data Volume

PHP

App

Time of

day

App

Shared Data Volume

PHP

App

Time of

day

App

Shared Data Volume

PHP

App

Time of

day

App

Key Components: Update Service

Deploy new version

Drain connections

Elastic Load Balancing

Shared Data Volume

PHP

App

Time of

day

App

Shared Data Volume

PHP

App

Time of

day

App

Shared Data Volume

PHP

App

Time of

day

App

Key Components: Update Service

Deploy new version

Drain connections

Shared Data Volume

PHP

App

Time of

day

App

Shared Data Volume

PHP

App

Time of

day

App

Shared Data Volume

PHP

App

Time of

day

App

Elastic Load Balancing

Key Components: Update Service

Deploy new version

Drain connections

Shared Data Volume

PHP

App

Time of

day

App

Shared Data Volume

PHP

App

Time of

day

App

Elastic Load Balancing

Shared Data Volume

PHP

App

Time of

day

App

Demo

Typical user workflow

I want to run a service

Typical user workflow

Run Instances Amazon

EC2

Use custom AMI with

Docker support and

ECS Agent. Instances

will register with

default cluster.

Typical user workflow

Create Task Definition

Declare resource

requirements for

containers

Shared Data Volume

PHP AppTime of day

App

Typical user workflow

Create Service

Declare resource

requirements for

service

Shared Data Volume

PHP AppTime of day

App

Elastic

Load

Balancing

X 5

Typical user workflow

Describe Service

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