AWS ECS

Question 1

What is the task?

Answer 1

As the task is one or more container definitions, with container def’s describing the container, image, memory and CPU.

Question 2

What is the service?

Answer 2

Amazon ECS allows you to run and maintain a specified number of instances of a task definition simultaneously in an Amazon ECS cluster

Question 3

What is a cluster?

Answer 3

An Amazon ECS cluster is a logical grouping of tasks or services. If you are running tasks or services that use the EC2 launch type, a cluster is also a grouping of container instances. containers.

Question 4

What is the container definition?

Answer 4

It defined what a container is, like its image, CPU, Memory, port mapping, etc. It is part of a task and a task can have one or more container definitions.

Question 5

What are the architectural elements in ECS

Answer 5

• Cluster
• Service
• Task definition
• Container definition

Question 6

What are the launch methods for tasks?

Answer 6

• EC2

- FARGATE

Question 7

What is the ECS agent?

Answer 7

It is the agent installed on the EC2 instances and controlled by AWS ESC the services

Question 8

I wnat to deploy a windows container, can I do this in ECS?

Answer 8

Yes 100%, but you can only make it a server cluster and not fargate.