Research server option: Fargate

[coultergeist]

Research feasibility of the AWS server option Fargate

Estimated Time: Actual Time:

[hkhual]

I am going to give this task about 5 hours. Because going to watch tutorial videos to familiar myself on AWS Fargate service.

[toddysm]

The final deliverable for this is:

• Fargate instance
• Web server running on the Fargate instance (NGINX or Apache)
• Can load the home page of the web server?

[hkhual]

Estimated time: 5 hours Actual time: 6 hours Did some reading on docs.

1. Reading AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) doc. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/ECS_GetStarted_EC2.html
2. Read AWS Fargate on ECS document https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/AWS_Fargate.html
3. watched AWS Fargate tutorial video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEvLkwdFgnU

Fargate is a compute engine for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). It is a highly scalable, high performance container orchestration service. It is basically an engine for ECS to manage the container's underlining services.
I do think AWS Fargate is a great service for running containers and no clusters to manage but you have less control of your server clusters.

[hkhual]

Created Fargate cluster

[hkhual]

Created Fargate instance running nginx web server.

[hkhual]

Here is the Homepage for web server. This is testing to make sure it can load the homepage for the web server.

[hkhual]

Here is the wiki page: https://github.com/ActoKids/web-ui/wiki/Research-Server-Option:-Fargate