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Rapid Docker on AWS

Video Course

1.6 Preparing your machine

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AWS

Create AWS Account

Docker

Follow the official Docker installation guide tailored to your operating system to install Docker Desktop/Engine:

docker -v
docker run hello-world

Do you experience any issues? Let us know: hello@cloudonaut.io

Temporary working environment

  1. Download the book’s source code
  2. Unzip

Mac and Linux

Open a terminal

cd docker-on-aws-code
bash start.sh

Windows

Open PowerShell

cd docker-on-aws-code
powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -File start.ps1

Verify AWS setup

aws sts get-caller-identity

Configuring the AWS CLI

Creating an S3 bucket

aws s3 mb s3://docker-on-aws-$NICKNAME
  1. About the course
    1. What you will learn
    2. About us
    3. Agenda
    4. Questions and Feedback
    5. Copyright, License and Trademark
  2. Architecture
    1. Learning Goals
    2. Load Balancer
    3. Compute
    4. Database
    5. Benefits
    6. Preparing your machine
    7. Demo application
  3. Dockerizing your web application
    1. Learning Goals
    2. Getting started with Docker
    3. Building the Docker images for your web application
    4. Testing your web application locally
    5. Pushing your Docker images to the Amazon ECR registry
    6. Launching your web application
  4. Mastering the building blocks
    1. Learning Goals
    2. Managing your stack with infrastructure as code: AWS CloudFormation
    3. Load-balancing requests to your containers: Amazon ALB
    4. Managing and running your containers: ECS and Fargate
    5. Configuring a custom domain name and HTTPS: Route 53 and Certificate Manager
    6. Storing and querying your data: RDS Aurora Serverless
    7. Monitoring and debugging: CloudWatch
    8. Running scheduled jobs (cron) in the background
    9. Summary
  5. Continuous Deployment
    1. Learning Goals
    2. Version control: git & CodeCommit
    3. Deployment pipeline: CodeBuild
    4. Summary