Containerized Applications on AWS (Coursera)

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Containerized Applications on AWS (Coursera)

This course introduces you to container technologies and how they can be used to modernize your applications, as well as exploring how different AWS services can be used to manage and orchestrate those containers.

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Container technologies have existed for years, and are still gaining popularity. Two of the most prevalent options are Docker and Kubernetes - each with its own distinct set of features. Regardless of which technology you choose, one of the biggest challenges with containers is their orchestration. Unlike traditional, monolithic applications where you can only scale at a macro level - an executable, for example - containerized applications scale at the container level. When coupled with a microservices approach, each container can contain the code necessary to execute a single task or function. While this provides a number of benefits, a single application can consist of hundreds of containerized microservices. How do you handle starting, stopping, scaling out and scaling in all of these containers?
AWS offers a number of services that help with container orchestration, including Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Amazon Lightsail, and Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR). Throughout this course, expert instructors will dive deep into these services as well as general container technologies and capabilities.
This course uses a combination of video-based lectures, delivered by AWS technical trainers, demonstrations, and hands-on lab exercises to enable you to deploy and manage a containerized application.

Syllabus

Week 1
In week 1 of this course, you will learn about what containers are, their use cases, and how to build a container. Then, you will explore how to host a container on AWS by using the services Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) and AWS App Runner.

Week 2
In week 2 of the course, you will learn about multi-container deployments. Then, you will learn about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and AWS Fargate.

Week 3
In week 3 of this course, you will explore the basic concepts behind Kubernetes and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). You will also see a demonstration that uses Amazon EKS to deploy a multi-container application.

Week 4
In week 4 of this course, you will explore other container-related services, such as Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights and AWS Lambda.

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