In an ideal world, Docker containers should be ephemeral without any reliance on external storage. In the microservice world, this is achievable when services are connecting to external databases, queues, and other services. Sometimes though, we need persistent storage, when we're running services such as Jenkins, Prometheus, or Postgres. Fortunately,...
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Deploying containers into AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) is straight-forward, especially when using CloudFormation. Once you've got a basic ECS cluster deployed, it's important to think about how to provide high-availability of your service so your customers don't experience any down-time. In this article, we'll be extending the example provided...
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Deploying Docker containers to AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) is straightforward and automated when you make use of CloudFormation to define your infrastructure in a YAML template. Here we'll be running through a simple example where we'll setup everything required to run an NGINX container in AWS and access it...
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When using Docker to run applications security is a major concern, but it can sometimes be easy to forget as we focus first on functionality. This doesn't need to be the case, as AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR) can now be setup to automatically scan images on push, and provide...
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When you first look into Docker, what it does, and how it works, it appears to be a neat tool to help with application packaging and deployment. It's not until you start using it, however, that some of the other benefits that developers love so much show themselves. So, to...
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