Scaling a Web App with Docker on AWS

When combined, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Docker yield a feature-rich solution for developing and deploying web apps. Furthermore, a collaboration between both services has made for a smooth combination process. However, using these services in tandem requires understanding many components, commands, dependencies and processes. This course teaches you everything you need to know to develop and deploy scalable, fault-tolerant and load-balanced apps with Docker on AWS. We start by diving deeply into Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and its various components.

The first third of the course focuses on helping you understand AWS and showing you the procedure for setting up the environment required to develop and deploy the web app. Here you will investigate Amazon ECS, which is necessary to manage containers on AWS and its vital components, including clusters, container agents and task definitions. You will also learn the setup process for Docker and AWS and the process for creating SSH keypairs and security groups.

The following sections cover the methods of developing and deploying the app. You will learn to ‘Dockerise’ the app, build a demo, configure dependencies and predict AWS pricing. To effectively deploy the app, you will also learn to create clusters and primary repositories and schedule services. Finally, we will explain how to update, troubleshoot and link your app to a domain name. By taking this course, you will gain knowledge on using AWS and be capable of deploying scalable apps using Docker in only a few hours. Enrol today!