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Example Website Workload – Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) with Application Load Balancer and DNS (Route53), including NAT Gateway

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The Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), specifically Fargate allows you to run containers on an ad-hoc basis.  The following guide assumes you have already deployed an Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), built your image, pushed it to the ECR and have obtained the Repository URI. The guide also uses local Terraform state, please see the … Read more

Example Website Workload – AWS Elastic Container Service (AWS) with ALB, Route53 and Certificate

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The below gives a simple example showing how you can deploy a containerised workload: a NGINX web server in this example which has two (or more) containers (tasks) running on AWS Fargate, presented behind a “Service” definition which is then presented to the Internet via an Application Load Balancer (ALB) where a certificate is obtained … Read more

Docker Basics

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Containerisation is an increasingly popular method to deploy and run applications on both your computer but also for enterprise applications. Containerisation essentially bundles an application’s code with all the files and libraries it needs to run. Having a layer of abstraction like this means that as long as you are running the same Operating System, … Read more

Docker Install on Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS

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To install Docker on Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS you can use these simple instructions, these are based on a standard Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS installation and using a user called “ubuntu”. Once downloaded make sure it is executable with: Now run the installation with the following, the script has sudo commands added so you may need to … Read more