Amazon Elastic Container Service

Neil Haddley • September 20, 2021

Deploying to Amazon ECS

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I used Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes on AWS.

https://logz.io/blog/aws-eks-vs-ecs-vs-fargate-understand-differences/

Amazon also offers Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Amazon Fargate.

Since Amazon EKS is based on the open-source tool Kubernetes, all applications managed by Amazon EKS are fully compatible with applications managed by any standard Kubernetes environment.

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I logged in to aws.amazon.com

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I navigated to the AWS Management Console

Docker desktop

To demonstrate that I could use the same kubectl client to deploy containers to a laptop or the AWS cloud, I used this Docker Desktop example.

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No containers were running

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I ran kubectl apply -f ./blog.yaml

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The cluster was running

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I accessed the Docker Desktop cluster

aws cli

I used the aws command line tool to manage the Amazon Web Services cloud.

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I created a new AWS access key

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The access key was created

aws configure

I used aws configure to set credentials.

BASH
1% aws configure

AWS Access Key ID [None]: AKIAYLZDACM7MNDENQV4

AWS Secret Access Key [None]: iBXYnPPUTp+enyaVU2xvXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Default region name [None]:

Default output format [None]:

eksctl

I used eksctl, a simple CLI tool for creating clusters on EKS — Amazon's managed Kubernetes service for EC2.

https://github.com/weaveworks/eksctl

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I reviewed the eksctl documentation on the AWS site

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I found the eksctl project on GitHub

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I installed eksctl

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No clusters were running

eksctl create cluster

BASH

1% eksctl create cluster \
2  --name blog-cluster \
3  --node-type t2.nano \
4  --nodes 2

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I used eksctl to create a cluster (node type t2.nano)

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The blog-cluster was being created

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The blog-cluster was active

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The blog-cluster EC2 nodes were created

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The eksctl command finished

kubectl apply

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I used kubectl apply to deploy containers

eksctl delete cluster

I used eksctl delete to remove the cluster.

BASH

1% eksctl delete cluster \
2  --name blog-cluster

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I ran eksctl delete cluster

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The cluster was deleted

Deleting an AWS Access Key

Publishing AWS access keys is not a great idea, so I deleted mine.

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I selected the Delete link

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I clicked the Deactivate button

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I confirmed the access key name and clicked Delete

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The access key was deleted