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You're reading from Amazon Fargate Quick Start Guide Learn how to use AWS Fargate to run containers with ease

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789345018

Length 190 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Containerization

Author (1):

Deepak Vohra

Preface

1. Getting Started with Amazon ECS and Amazon Fargate FREE CHAPTER

2. Networking

3. Using CloudWatch Logs

4. Using Auto Scaling

5. Using IAM

6. Using an Application Load Balancer

7. Using Amazon ECS CLI

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In this section, we shall discuss creating a container definition for a MySQL database:

Click on Configure for the Custom Container definition, as shown in the following screenshot. Some other container definitions are available as examples:

In the Edit container dialog, specify a Container name (mysql) and specify Image as mysql, as shown in the following screenshot.

Specify a Soft limit (512) and a Hard limit (1024) for memory. The hard limit for memory must not be less than the soft limit:

Specify the Container port as 3306 in Port Mappings, with the Protocol as tcp, as shown in the following screenshot. With the Fargate launch type, only container port mappings may be configured. Host port mappings are not valid, and are set to the same value as the container port mappings:

In the Advanced container configuration | ENVIRONMENT section, specify the mandatory environment variable for the mysql Docker image. The mandatory environment variable is MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD...