Architecting on AWS

Module 9: Containers

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Poll question What percentage of your workloads run on
containers?

A. Less than 10 percent

B. 10–50 percent

C. More than 50 percent

D. I’m not sure

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Module overview
• Business requests
• Microservices
• Containers
• Container services
• Present solutions
• Knowledge check

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Business requests The compute operations manager wants to know:
• How can we make components of our
applications more independent so changes in
one service will not affect any other?
• What are the benefits of using containers for our
compute needs?
• What options do we have for managing
containerized applications in the cloud?

Compute Operations
Manager

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Microservices

“How can we make components of our applications more independent so

changes in one service will not affect any other?”

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Loose coupling

Anti-pattern Best practice

Web servers Web servers

Elastic
Web servers Decoupled with a
Load
tightly coupled to load balancer Balancing
application servers

Application Application
servers servers

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Microservices

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Containers

“What are the benefits of using containers for our compute needs?”

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Containers

Containers are: Dependencies

Configuration (environmental
• Repeatable
consistency)
• Self-contained
environments
• Faster to spin
up and down
than VMs Code
Runtime engine
• Portable
• Scalable

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Containers and microservices

Monolithic order application Microservice order application

Ordering UI Reporting Marketing

UI UI
Order Order Order
history history history

Inventory Inventory Email

Mailing Sales Sales

logic history history

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Levels of abstraction and virtualization

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Containers on AWS
Containers on Amazon Containers with an
EC2 orchestration tool
• Running containers
directly on Amazon
EC2 requires you to
manage scaling,
connectivity, and
maintenance.
• Using an orchestration
tool helps manage:
• Scheduling
• Placement
• Networking
• Monitoring

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Container services

“What options do we have for managing containerized applications in the

cloud?”

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 Running containers on AWS

Pulls container Orchestration Deploys container Container

Registry image from the to hosting resource
registry tool hosting

Amazon Elastic Container Amazon Elastic Amazon Elastic AWS Fargate Amazon EC2
Registry (Amazon ECR) Kubernetes Service Container Service
(Amazon EKS) (Amazon ECS)

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Amazon ECR

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Amazon ECS orchestration

Managed container
orchestration service
tightly integrated with
AWS
• Pulls images from
your repositories
• ECS services scale
service capacity by
managing container
count
• ECS clusters scale
hosting capacity

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Amazon ECS features

Fully managed Service discovery

Amazon ECS

AWS integrations Works with common

development workflows
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Monolithic to container-based microservices

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Amazon EKS

Run applications at Seamlessly move

scale applications

Run anywhere Add new functionality

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Amazon EKS solutions

Fargate
Deploy serverless
containers.

Amazon EKS Provision an Connect to Run Kubernetes

Run Kubernetes on AWS. Amazon EKS Amazon EKS. applications.
cluster.
Amazon EC2
Deploy worker nodes
for your Amazon EKS
cluster.

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AWS Fargate

Amazon ECS
or
AWS Fargate
Launch containers Manage containers
Build a container Launch containers,
image. Fargate runs your Amazon ECS scales
Amazon EKS and Fargate manages containers for your applications and
all of the underlying you. manages your
Define the images container containers for
and resources infrastructure. availability.
needed for your
app.

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Choosing AWS container services

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Review

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 Present Consider how you would answer the
solutions following:
• How can we make components of our
applications more independent so changes in
one service will not affect any other?
• What are the benefits of using containers for our
compute needs?
• What options do we have for managing
containerized applications in the cloud?
Compute Operations
Manager

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Module review

In this module you learned about:

Microservices
Containers
Container services

Next, you will review:

Knowledge check

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Knowledge check

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Knowledge check question 1

Which of the following are characteristics of microservices? (Select TWO.)

A Loosely coupled

B Redundant

C Autonomous and independent

D Tightly integrated

E Interdependent components

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 Knowledge check question 1 and answer

Which of the following are characteristics of microservices? (Select TWO.)

A
correct
Loosely coupled

B Redundant

C
correct
Autonomous and independent

D Tightly integrated and dependent

E Interdependent components

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Knowledge check question 2

Which of the following are characteristics of containers? (Select TWO.)

A Portable and scalable

B Requires a hypervisor

C Automatic

D Repeatable

E Each requires its own operating system

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 Knowledge check question 2 and answer

Which of the following are characteristics of containers? (Select TWO.)

A
correct
Portable and scalable

B Requires a hypervisor

C Automatic

D
correct
Repeatable

E Each requires its own operating system

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Knowledge check question 3

Containers in Amazon ECS are logically organized in:

A A cluster

B Pods

C EBS volumes

D Amazon S3

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 Knowledge check question 3 and answer

Containers in Amazon ECS are logically organized in:

A
correct
A cluster

B Pods

C EBS volumes

D Amazon S3

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Knowledge check question 4

Why would you choose to deploy your containers to AWS Fargate over Amazon EC2?

A To take control of your infrastructure

B To avoid manual infrastructure updates

C To optimize price for a large load

D To manage your own patches and updates

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 Knowledge check question 4 and answer

Why would you choose to deploy your containers to AWS Fargate over Amazon EC2?

A To take control of your infrastructure

B
correct
To avoid manual infrastructure updates

C To optimize price for a large load

D To manage your own patches and updates

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End of Module 9

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