Running Containers in AWS

In Chapter 6, Scaling Your Infrastructure, our architecture changed quite a bit. We explored different ways to scale our applications in AWS, but one of the major technologies that we left out was containers. Containers are at the heart of the software development life cycle (SDLC) of many major technology companies.

So far, we have used our personal computers to develop our applications. This works well for simple projects, such as our Hello World application. However, when it comes to more complex projects with many dependencies, it's a different story. Have you ever heard of situations in which a certain feature works on a developer's laptop but does not work for the rest of the organization-or-even worse, does ...

Get Effective DevOps with AWS - Second Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.