3

Amazon ECS – Overview

In this chapter, we’ll learn about Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and its relevant Windows components, such as container instances, services, tasks, and task definitions, and then deep-dive into task networking. Finally, we’ll deploy an empty Amazon ECS cluster using Terraform, which will be the first step in the building block exercise of configuring Amazon ECS entirely with Windows container instances and tasks.

We are going to cover the following main topics:

  • Amazon ECS – fundamentals
  • Amazon ECS – task networking
  • Deploying an Amazon ECS cluster with Terraform

This chapter will give us the fundamentals for Chapters 4, 5, and 6, which will deep-dive into the Windows specifics and deployments.

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