Deploy Containers to AWS using Docker ECS Plugin Deploy Containers to AWS using Docker ECS Plugin Containers are good, we love them. Amazon Elastic Container Service(ECS) is also good, and we like it, but the least likable aspects of… Deploy Containers to AWS using Docker ECS Plugin Containers are good, we love them. Amazon Elastic Container Service(ECS) is also good, and we like it, but the least likable aspects of ECS are deployments and creating necessary resources on AWS. Docker recently announced ECS integration through a new plugin that integrates Docker CLI and AWS seamlessly. For this tutorial, we are going to deploy WordPress installation using only Docker CLI with the help of the new ECS plugin. The new plugin is only available in Docker edge releases. https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop Let’s start by describing the Docker Compose template that we are going to use. We will be using the necessary Docker images from Bitnami. Now we can set the ECS plugin, bef...

Serverless Kubernetes with Amazon EKS Serverless Kubernetes with Amazon EKS The term Serverless does not mean that there are no servers involved at all. As many people are still confused with the fairly new term… Serverless Kubernetes with Amazon EKS The term Serverless does not mean that there are no servers involved at all. As many people are still confused with the fairly new term, we would like to clarify that first; Serverless is a cloud execution model in which the cloud provider runs the server, and dynamically manages the allocation of machine resources and low-level operations. The serverless model abstracts away the complexity of running distributed systems on the cloud and provides easy to use application interfaces. Serverless offerings on AWS include AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, S3 and Fargate. In this tutorial, we are going to deploy a Serverless Kubernetes cluster on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service(EKS) using Cloud Development Kit(CDK) and we will leverage AWS Fargate...

Highly Available and Scalable Wordpress Installation on AWS Highly Available and Scalable Wordpress Installation on AWS The initial version of Wordpress was released in May 2003 and it has been nearly 17 years. Wordpress is still going strong after all these… Highly Available and Scalable Wordpress Installation on AWS The initial version of Wordpress was released in May 2003 and it has been nearly 17 years. Wordpress is still going strong after all these years, according to report WordPress powers over 1/3rd of the top 10 million sites . We can safely assume that Wordpress is not going away anytime soon. Many cloud companies are now targeting Wordpress users directly with Wordpress specific hosting. Although that might sounds optimal for the average Wordpress user, these offerings have limitations and shortcomings. Most of them provide poor hardware support and scaling a Wordpress instance can become a really hard task. We would like to treat Wordpress as a web application that ...