NOTE 1.0
These command snippets are meant for people working through
the new, fully updated
release of the Pluralsight course.
If, somehow, you've been sent to this page from an older version that doesn't cover Fargate or Kubernetes,
then I would advise you to disregard what you've seen. The way AWS handles Docker container workloads has changed
substantially since that older version was created and there's a lot there that'll just confuse you.
Accept no substitutes!
Note 1.1
Although I often recommend
running LXC containers as a fantastic virtual environment for experimenting, don't even think about it for those demos that require Docker CE to be installed locally: since both technologies use abstractions of the host kernel, they'd be stepping all over each other's feet trying to get things done. Instead, unless you choose to follow along with the command line-based demos directly on an actual physical PC, I would recommend installing VirtualBox, downloading the latest stable LTS Ubuntu ISO file (which would currently be 18.04), and firing up as many VMs as you like. I included a
video on working with VirtualBox in my Linux Server Virtualization course.
Note 2.0
You'll need to make a change to the Dockerfile that installs Apache2 on Ubuntu: instead of:
RUN apt-get -y install
The line should read:
RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive" apt-get -y install
If you don't do that, the build will stall as it tries to set the system locale. Thanks to a sharp-eyed Pluralsight viewer for catching this and bringing it to my attention. I've updated the Dockerfiles themselves below.
Contents:
Script for installing Docker on Ubuntu
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#!/bin/bash
sudo apt-get update
# Prepare TLS encryption
sudo apt-get -y install \
apt-transport-https \
ca-certificates \
curl \
gnupg-agent \
software-properties-common
# Add and verify official Docker GPG key
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
# Add apt repo
sudo add-apt-repository \
"deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
$(lsb_release -cs) \
stable"
sudo apt-get update
# Install Docker CE
sudo apt-get -y install docker-ce docker-ce.cli containerd.io
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A simple Dockerfile
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# Simple Dockerfile
#
FROM ubuntu:latest
RUN apt-get update
RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive" apt-get install -y apache2
RUN echo "Welcome to my web site" > /var/www/html/index.html
EXPOSE 80
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Build and run a container
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docker build -t "webserver" .
docker images
docker run -d -p 80:80 webserver /usr/sbin/apache2ctl -D FOREGROUND
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WordPress stack.yml file for local deployment
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version: '3.1'
services:
wordpress:
image: wordpress
ports:
- 80:80
environment:
WORDPRESS_DB_HOST: db
WORDPRESS_DB_USER: wpuser
WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD: examplepassword
WORDPRESS_DB_NAME: wpdb
db:
image: mysql:5.7
environment:
MYSQL_DATABASE: wpdb
MYSQL_USER: wpuser
MYSQL_PASSWORD: examplepassword
MYSQL_RANDOM_ROOT_PASSWORD: '1'
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Prepare an EC2 launch type
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ecs-cli configure \
--cluster ec2-test-App \
--region us-east-1 \
--default-launch-type EC2 \
--config-name ec2-test-App
ecs-cli configure profile \
--access-key <your-access-key> \
--secret-key <your-secret-key> \
--profile-name ec2-test-App
ecs-cli up \
--capability-iam \
--size 2 \
--instance-type t2.medium \
--cluster-config ec2-test-App
--ecs-profile ec2-test-App
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docker-compose.yml for EC2 launch
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version: '3'
services:
wordpress:
image: wordpress
ports:
- "80:80"
links:
- mysql
mysql:
image: mysql:5.7
environment:
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD:
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ecs-params.yml for EC2 launch
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version: 1
task_definition:
services:
wordpress:
cpu_shares: 100
mem_limit: 524288000
mysql:
cpu_shares: 100
mem_limit: 524288000
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Launch EC2 type
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ecs-cli compose \
--project-name ec2-project service up \
--cluster-config ec2-test-App
ecs-cli ps --cluster-config ec2-test-App
[shut down:]
ecs-cli compose down --cluster-config ec2-test-App
ecs-cli down --force --cluster-config ec2-test-App
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Prepare a Fargate launch
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ecs-cli configure profile \
--profile-name wpfargate \
--access-key <your-access-key> \
--secret-key <your-secret-key>
ecs-cli configure \
--cluster wpfargate \
--region us-east-1 \
--default-launch-type FARGATE \
--config-name wpfargate
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"Service": "ecs-tasks.amazonaws.com"
},
"Action": "sts:AssumeRole"
}
]
}
aws iam \
--region us-east-1 create-role \
--role-name ecsTaskExecutionRole \
--assume-role-policy-document file://task-execution-assume-role.json
NOTE: You may need to also run this command for the later ecs-compose command to work:
aws iam \
--region us-east-1 attach-role-policy \
--role-name ecsTaskExecutionRole \
--policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonECSTaskExecutionRolePolicy
ecs-cli up --cluster-config wpfargate
aws ec2 create-security-group \
--group-name "wpfargate-sg" \
--description "My Fargate security group" \
--vpc-id "vpc-0fd8a0742962a4c7e"
aws ec2 authorize-security-group-ingress \
--group-id "sg-056e52a070c1aad48" \
--protocol tcp \
--port 80 \
--cidr 0.0.0.0/0
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YAML files for Fargate
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nano docker-compose.yml
version: '3'
services:
wordpress:
image: wordpress
ports:
- "80:80"
logging:
driver: awslogs
options:
awslogs-group: wpfargate
awslogs-region: us-east-1
awslogs-stream-prefix: wordpress
nano ecs-params.yml
version: 1
task_definition:
task_execution_role: ecsTaskExecutionRole
ecs_network_mode: awsvpc
task_size:
mem_limit: 0.5GB
cpu_limit: 256
run_params:
network_configuration:
awsvpc_configuration:
subnets:
- "subnet-0ea714f5de083febd"
- "subnet-03157b03dac355069"
security_groups:
- "sg-056e52a070c1aad48"
assign_public_ip: ENABLED
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Launch Fargate type
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ecs-cli compose \
--project-name wpfargate service up \
--create-log-groups \
--cluster-config wpfargate \
--cluster wpfargate
ecs-cli ps --cluster wpfargate
ecs-cli compose \
--project-name wpfargate service down \
--cluster-config wpfargate
ecs-cli down \
--force \
--cluster-config wpfargate
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Install eksctl, kubectl, and aws-iam-authenticator
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curl --silent --location "https://github.com/weaveworks/eksctl/releases/download/latest_release/eksctl_$(uname -s)_amd64.tar.gz" | tar xz -C /tmp
sudo mv /tmp/eksctl /usr/local/bin
eksctl version
curl -o kubectl https://amazon-eks.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/1.19.6/2021-01-05/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl
ls
curl -o kubectl.sha256 https://amazon-eks.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/1.19.6/2021-01-05/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl.sha256
ls
cat kubectl.sha256
openssl sha1 -sha256 kubectl
chmod +x ./kubectl
mkdir bin
cp kubectl bin
export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
echo 'export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
kubectl version --short --client
curl -o aws-iam-authenticator https://amazon-eks.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/1.12.7/2019-03-27/bin/linux/amd64/aws-iam-authenticator
curl -o aws-iam-authenticator.sha256 https://amazon-eks.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/1.12.7/2019-03-27/bin/linux/amd64/aws-iam-authenticator.sha256
ls
openssl sha1 -sha256 aws-iam-authenticator
chmod +x ./aws-iam-authenticator
cp aws-iam-authenticator bin/
aws-iam-authenticator help
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Build Kubernetes cluster and download YAML files
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eksctl create cluster \
--name wp-cluster \
--version 1.12 \
--nodegroup-name standard-workers \
--node-type t3.medium \
--nodes 3 \
--nodes-min 1 \
--nodes-max 4 \
--node-ami auto
kubectl create secret generic mysql-pass --from-literal=password=bigsecret
kubectl get secrets
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/website/master/content/en/examples/application/wordpress/mysql-deployment.yaml > mysql-deployment.yaml
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/website/master/content/en/examples/application/wordpress/wordpress-deployment.yaml > wordpress-deployment.yaml
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Build Apache webserver container on Docker CE
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# Simple Apache Dockerfile
#
FROM ubuntu:latest
RUN apt-get update
RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive" apt-get install -y apache2
CMD /usr/sbin/apache2ctl -D FOREGROUND
EXPOSE 80
docker build -t newserver .
docker run -d -p 80:80 newserver
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Apache on ECS
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docker-compose.yml
version: '3'
services:
apache:
image: dbclinton/newserver
ports:
- "80:80"
ecs-params.yml
version: 1
task_definition:
services:
apache:
cpu_shares: 100
mem_limit: 524288000
ecs-cli configure \
--cluster ec2cluster2 \
--region us-east-1 \
--default-launch-type EC2 \
--config-name ec2cluster2
ecs-cli configure profile \
--access-key <your-access-key> \
--secret-key <your-secret-key> \
--profile-name ec2cluster2
ecs-cli up \
--capability-iam \
--size 1 \
--instance-type t3.medium \
--cluster-config ec2cluster2
ecs-cli compose \
--project-name ec2cluster service up \
--cluster-config ec2cluster2
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ECR authentication and administration
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aws ecr get-login --no-include-email --region us-east-1
aws ecr create-repository --repository-name newrepo
aws ecr describe-repositories
docker images
docker-compose.yml
version: '3'
services:
apache:
image: 297972716276.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/newrepo:latest
ports:
- "80:80"
ecs-params.yml
version: 1
task_definition:
services:
apache:
cpu_shares: 100
mem_limit: 524288000
ecs-cli configure \
--cluster ec2cluster \
--region us-east-1 \
--default-launch-type EC2 \
--config-name ec2cluster
ecs-cli configure profile \
--access-key <your-access-key> \
--secret-key <your-secret-key> \
--profile-name ec2cluster
ecs-cli up \
--capability-iam \
--size 1 \
--instance-type t3.medium \
--cluster-config ec2cluster
ecs-cli compose \
--project-name ec2cluster service up \
--cluster-config ec2cluster
ecs-cli ps --cluster-config ec2cluster
ecs-cli compose \
--project-name ec2cluster service down \
--cluster-config ec2cluster
ecs-cli down --force --cluster-config ec2cluster
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