Amazon Fargate
Neil Haddley • September 20, 2021
Pay-as-you-go
AWS Fargate is a serverless, pay-as-you-go compute engine that simplifies running containers on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) makes it possible to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes on AWS.
Notice that Amazon also offer 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.
Login to aws.amazon.com
AWS Management Console
Docker desktop
To demonstrate that it is possible to use the same kubectl client to deploy containers to a laptop or the AWS cloud consider this Docker desktop example.
No containers running
kutectl apply -f ./blog.yaml
The cluster is running
Accessing the Docker desktop cluster
aws cli
The aws command line tool is used to manage the Amazon Web Services cloud.
Creating a New AWS Access Key
Access Key Created
aws configure
aws configure is used 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
eksctl is a simple CLI tool for creating clusters on EKS - Amazon's managed Kubernetes service for EC2.
https://github.com/weaveworks/eksctl
eksctl documentation on the AWS site
ekctl project on github
installing eksctl
No clusters
eksctl create cluster
BASH
1% eksctl create cluster \
--name blog-cluster \
--node-type t2.nano \
--nodes 2
using eskctl to create a cluster (node type t2.nano)
blog-cluster is being created
blog-cluster active
blog-cluster Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) nodes created
eksctl command finished
kubectl apply
Using kubectl apply command to deploy containers
eksctl delete cluster
using ekctl delete to remove the cluster
BASH
1% eksctl delete cluster \
--name blog-cluster
eksctl delete cluster
The cluster has been deleted
Deleting an AWS Access Key
Publishing AWS Access Keys is not a great idea.
This is how Keys are deleted.
Select the Delete link
Click the Deactivate button
Confirm the access key name and click the Delete button
The Access key has been deleted