Containers Flashcards
provide a standard way to package your application’s code, configurations, and dependencies into a single object
containers
plaintext file that specifies all of the components that are included in the container
dockerfiles
Are containers portable?
Yes
Parent OS used, FS layers are shared making containers
lightweight
Containers only run the application and environment that it needs
True
Provides much of the isolation virtual machines do
true
exposed to the outside world so they can be accessed
ports
can application stacks be multi-container
Yes
fully managed container orchestration service that helps you easily deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
logical grouping of tasks or services used to isolate your applications
Amazon ECS cluster
application components must be configured to run in containers
true
text file that describes one or more containers that form your application in JSON format
Task Definition
instantiation of a task definition within a cluster
Task
run and maintain your desired number of tasks simultaneously in an Amazon ECS cluster
Services
defines the images and ports used
Container Definition