DevOps in AWS Radio: Orchestrating Docker containers with AWS ECS, ECR and CodePipeline (Episode 4)

In this episode, Paul Duvall and Brian Jakovich from Stelligent cover recent DevOps in AWS news and speak about the AWS EC2 Container Service (ECS), AWS EC2 Container Registry (ECR), HashiCorp Consul, AWS CodePipeline, and other tools in providing Docker-based solutions for customers. Here are the show notes:

DevOps in AWS News

• Now evaluate AWS Config Rules on demand, trigger rules on both configuration changes and periodic frequency, delete evaluation results, and assess a broad set of resources
• AWS CodeCommit Adds Commit History View
• IAM Roles for ECS Tasks
• AWS re:Invent 2016 Session Catalog (DevOps)
• AWS CodePipeline plugin for TeamCity
• AWS Lambda Available in Asia Pacific (Singapore)

Episode Topics

1. Benefits of using ECS, ECR, Docker, etc.
2. Components of ECS, ECR and Service Discovery
3. Orchestrating and automating the deployment pipeline using CloudFormation, CodePipeline, Jenkins, etc. 

Blog Posts

1. Automating ECS: Provisioning in CloudFormation (Part 1)
2. Automating ECS: Orchestrating in CodePipeline and CloudFormation (Part 2)

About DevOps in AWS Radio

On DevOps in AWS Radio, we cover topics around applying DevOps principles and practices such as Continuous Delivery in the Amazon Web Services cloud. This is what we do at Stelligent for our customers. We’ll bring listeners into our roundtables and speak with engineers who’ve recently published on our blog and we’ll also be reaching out to the wider DevOps in AWS community to get their thoughts and insights.
The overall vision of this podcast is to describe how listeners can create a one-click (or “no click”) implementation of their software systems and infrastructure in the Amazon Web Services cloud so that teams can deliver software to users whenever there’s a business need to do so. The podcast will delve into the cultural, process, tooling, and organizational changes that can make this possible including:

• Automation of
  • Networks (e.g. VPC)
  • Compute (EC2, Containers, Serverless, etc.)
  • Storage (e.g. S3, EBS, etc.)
  • Database and Data (RDS, DynamoDB, etc.)
• Organizational and Team Structures and Practices
• Team and Organization Communication and Collaboration
• Cultural Indicators
• Version control systems and processes
• Deployment Pipelines
  • Orchestration of software delivery workflows
  • Execution of these workflows
• Application/service Architectures – e.g. Microservices
• Automation of Build and deployment processes
• Automation of testing and other verification approaches, tools and systems
• Automation of security practices and approaches
• Continuous Feedback systems
• Many other Topics…

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