Episode 55 - Container Special

In this themed episode of AWS TechChat, Shane brings along a special guest, AWS Solution Architect and Container expert - Mitch Beaumont. We started the show reminiscing about container history, going way back looking at where we came from and how we arrived at the position we are today and gave a quick overview of our container offerings - Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and AWS Fargate. I then posed a fictitious question about container orchestration - what options are available and the pros and cons of each platform. We looked at our container roadmap, so pop that into your favorite search engine (https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap) to get an understanding of what has shipped, what is coming soon and what we are working on. They say, if you are not keeping score it’s just practice, so Mitch ran us through the approaches we need to take as we make the shift through to containers around observability and monitoring before talking through deployment and operational patterns. Lastly, to close out the show, we once again touched base with Firecracker. Firecraker provides hardware-level isolation with the convenience of containers and underpins many of the container and serverless offerings on AWS. It is open-source so feel free to download it, kick the tires and have a play. Speakers: Shane Baldacchino - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS Mitch Beaumont - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS Resources: What is a Container? https://aws.amazon.com/containers/ Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/ AWS Fargate https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/ AWS Container Roadmap https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap Elastic Network Interfaces https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-eni.html Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) https://aws.amazon.com/eks/ Amazon VPC CNI Plugin for Kubernetes Upgrades https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/cni-upgrades.html Elastic Load Balancing https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/ Amazon CloudWatch https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/ Centralized Container Logging with Fluent Bit https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/centralized-container-logging-fluent-bit/ Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate FireLens https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap/tree/master/preview-programs/firelens Firecracker https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker AWS Container DevSecOps Workshop https://container-devsecops.awssecworkshops.com/ APAC Online Event: AWSome Day Online series https://aws.amazon.com/events/awsome-day/awsome-day-online/ AWS Data Analytics & Machine Learning Online Series https://aws.amazon.com/events/data-analytics-series/ AWS Builders Online Series on-demand https://aws.amazon.com/events/builders-online-series/ AWS Innovate on-demand aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate/