Exercise 7.4 – Launching an application on Amazon Fargate

In this exercise, you will launch a task on ECS, which is essentially a Docker container:

1. Log in to your AWS account as Alice and in the top search bar in the AWS Management Console, type in ECS.
2. From the search results, select Elastic Container Service.
3. You will be presented with the ECS splash screen, as per the following screenshot:

   Figure 7.31 – Amazon ECS

4. From the left-hand menu, select Clusters.
5. In the right-hand pane, click the Create cluster button.
6. You will be prompted to select the cluster template. You will be deploying a Fargate cluster, so go ahead and select the Network only option design for use with either AWS Fargate or an external instance capacity.
7. Click the Next step button at the bottom of the page.
8. On the next screen, name your cluster MyCluster.
9. Next, click the Create button at the bottom of the page.
10. You will see a notification once the cluster...