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Live container service
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CAREER PROJECT · Advanced · 2 weekends
AWS ECS Container Service
Containerize an application and operate it on ECS with load balancing, health checks, secrets and rolling deployments.
ECSDockerLoad balancingIAMHealth checksDeployments
DEFINITION OF DONE
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Architecture diagram
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Health-check demo
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Deployment runbook
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Cost estimate
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RESUME / PORTFOLIO FRAMING
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Deployed and operated a containerized service on AWS ECS with load balancing, health checks and rolling releases.
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STRETCH GOALS
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Autoscaling
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Blue/green deployment
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Private service networking
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