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AWS Elastic Container Service

In this article, we will discuss the AWS Elastic Container Service.

Terminologies

ECS cluster is the logical grouping of container instances that you manage together.

A container instance is a virtual or physical machine that runs the Docker engine and hosts one or more Docker containers. A container is a collection of tasks.

A task is a set of containers that logically belong together and should be run on the same container instance. A task contains one or more containers.

How To Create The Elastic Container Service In AWS?

The first step is to search the Elastic Container Service in the search result.

Picture showing the elastic container service in the search result

A screen will appear to create the cluster.

Picture showing the Create cluster button for creating the new cluster

Click on the Create cluster button. The Create cluster screen will appear.

Picture showing cluster name field in the create cluster screen

Select the Cluster name and scroll to the Infrastructure section. Select AWS Fargate (serverless).

Picture showing selecting the infrastructure while creating the cluster

Click on the Create button to create the cluster.

Picture showing the cluster is created in AWS console

Task Definition Creation

Once the cluster is created, the next step is to create a task. For that, click on the Task definitions menu on the left-hand side.

Picture showing submenu Task definitions in the Amazon Elastic Container Service

A screen will appear to create the task definitions.

Picture showing the create new task definiton button for creating the new task definition

Click on the Create new task definition button. The Create new task definition screen will appear.

Picture showing specifying the task definition family name in the create new task definition screen

Enter the Task definition family. Scroll down to select Launch type as AWS Fargate in the Infrastructure requirements section.

Picture showing setting the infrastructure requirements while creating the task definition

Scroll down and select the image for the container.

Picture showing setting the name and image of the container

Scroll to the bottom and click on the Create button to create the task definition.

Picture showing the create button for creating the task definition

Create A Service Inside The Cluster

Go to the details of the cluster created in the last section. In the Services tab, click on the Create button.

Picture showing the service tab inside the cluster

In the create screen, specify the Capacity provider as FARGATE.

Picture showing setting the Capacity provider for the service

Scroll down further and specify the Application type, Task definition, and Service name.

Picture showing setting up the service name in cluster service

Scroll down to the bottom and click on the Create button to create the services.

Picture showing the create button for creating the service

The service and tasks are created.

Picture showing the service is created in AWS ECS

Picture showing the task definition created in AWS ECS

Check The Output

If you click on the open address link on the Public IP.

Picture showing the public IP address of the container

You can see the home page of nginx.

Picture showing the home page of the nginx

Posted By -	Karan Gupta

Posted On -	Saturday, February 3, 2024

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