Tutorial: Deploying Scalable NodeJS app using ECS with Docker
Submitted By: Harkirat Singh, Harman Gill,Muhammad Imran Malik, Mauro Pappatera
Table of Contents
- ECS Introduction
- Benefits of ECS
- ECS Features
- Intro to docker
- Demo and Tutorial
- Common Docker Gotchas
- Resources
Benefits of using ECS
ECS offers several benefits when it comes to deploying dynamic web applications at large scale and in a highly available. Since it uses the underlying technology of docker, it becomes very simple to containerize applications and deploy them in seconds. ECS most prominent advantages are:
- Elastic web-scale computing
- Completely controlled
- No additional charges
- Supports docker-compose style yaml files
- Multiple web apps under same cluster
- Build once, push to registry, and deploy anywhere
ECS totally comforts to the core docker mission which is Build, ship,run, anywhere
