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Amazon Web Services

Managing the Application Lifecycle in Amazon ECS

Amazon Web Services and Amazon via AWS Skill Builder

Overview

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In this course, you learn how to manage applications at scale on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). You learn how to select the best method for building an Amazon ECS environment, how to select the best deployment options for your application, and how to manage your application pipelines throughout your applications’ lifecycle.

  • Course level: Advanced
  • Duration: 90 minutes


Activities

This course includes interactive lessons and knowledge checks.

Course objectives

In this course, you learn to:

  • Select the correct method for deploying an Amazon ECS environment based on your needs.
  • Manage your application pipeline according to best practices for performance, security, and resilience.

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

  • Cloud architects
  • DevOps engineers
  • Operations staff
  • Developers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

  • Working knowledge of containers and Amazon ECS
  • Previous experience deploying simple applications on Amazon ECS
  • Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Primer
  • Building Enterprise Architectures in Amazon ECS

Course outline

Module 1: Preparing Your Environment to Run Containers

  • Reviewing your Infrastructure Requirements
  • Infrastructure Deployment Options
  • AWS CloudFormation
  • AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)
  • AWS Copilot
  • AWS Proton
  • Choosing the Right Tool

Module 2: Deploying Applications

  • Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) Best Practices
  • Different Ways to Build and Deploy
  • Application Deployment Patterns
  • Rolling Deployments
  • Blue/Green Deployments
  • Optimizing Your Deployment Configurations

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