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Michael Heydt
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Michael Heydt is an independent consultant, programmer, educator, and trainer. He has a passion for learning and sharing his knowledge of new technologies. Michael has worked in multiple industry verticals, including media, finance, energy, and healthcare. Over the last decade, he worked extensively with web, cloud, and mobile technologies and managed user experiences, interface design, and data visualization for major consulting firms and their clients. Michael's current company, Seamless Thingies , focuses on IoT development and connecting everything with everything. Michael is the author of numerous articles, papers, and books, such as D3.js By Example, Instant Lucene. NET, Learning Pandas, and Mastering Pandas for Finance, all by Packt. Michael is also a frequent speaker at .NET user groups and various mobile, cloud, and IoT conferences and delivers webinars on advanced technologies.
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Creating an ECS cluster

Elastic Container Service (ECS) is an AWS service that runs your Docker containers in the cloud. There is a lot of power (and detail) in using ECS. We will look at a simple deployment that runs our containers on a single EC2 virtual machine. Our goal is to get our scraper to the cloud. Extensive detail on using ECS to scale out the scraper is for another time (and book).

How to do it

We start by creating an ECR cluster using the AWS CLI. The we will create one EC2 virtual machine in the cluster to run our containers.

I've included a shell file, in the 11/06 folder, names create-cluster-complete.sh, which runs through all of these commands in one run.

There are number of steps to getting...

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Published in: Feb 2018Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781787285217

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Michael Heydt

Michael Heydt is an independent consultant, programmer, educator, and trainer. He has a passion for learning and sharing his knowledge of new technologies. Michael has worked in multiple industry verticals, including media, finance, energy, and healthcare. Over the last decade, he worked extensively with web, cloud, and mobile technologies and managed user experiences, interface design, and data visualization for major consulting firms and their clients. Michael's current company, Seamless Thingies , focuses on IoT development and connecting everything with everything. Michael is the author of numerous articles, papers, and books, such as D3.js By Example, Instant Lucene. NET, Learning Pandas, and Mastering Pandas for Finance, all by Packt. Michael is also a frequent speaker at .NET user groups and various mobile, cloud, and IoT conferences and delivers webinars on advanced technologies.
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