Breaking the monolith - Containers

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Date
Microservices
Changes to the architectural
patterns
When the impact of change is small,
release velocity can increase

Monolith Microservices
Does everything Do one thing

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Microservices architectures
APPLICATION
Mobile
client

EVENT

API
MICROSERVICE

API
MICROSERVICE

Client

EVENT
MICROSERVICE

API
MICROSERVICE

API
IoT
MICROSERVICE

PERSISTENCE PERSISTENCE

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 Cloud-native architectures are
small pieces, loosely joined

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Containers
The Problem
Static
website

• Different application stacks Web

fronted

• Different hardware deployment Background

environments workers

• How to run all applications User DB

across different environments?

Analytics
DB

• How to easily migrate from one

environment to another? Queue

Single
QA Onsite Public Contributor’s Customer
Dev VM Prod
Server Cluster Cloud laptop Servers
Server

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The Solution
Static
website

• Unit of software delivery Web

fronted

• Lightweight, portable, consistent

Background
• Deploy and run everywhere workers

• Deploy and run anything User DB

Analytics
DB

Queue

Single
QA Onsite Public Contributor’s Customer
Dev VM Prod
Server Cluster Cloud laptop Servers
Server

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What is a container?
• Containers share a machine's OS kernel.
• They start instantly and use less compute and RAM.
• Images are constructed from file system layers and share common files. This minimizes
disk usage and image downloads are much faster.

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 Docker
Client DOCKER_HOST Registry

docker build Docker daemon

Docker daemon
docker pull Containers Images
Docker client
docker run

• Lightweight container virtualization platform.

• Tools to manage and deploy your applications.
• Licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.
• Built by Docker, Inc.

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Container orchestration
 At first there was

Amazon EC2

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 Then Docker!

Containers

EC2 Instance

Customers started containerizing applications

within EC2 instances

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 Customers needed an easier way to manage large clusters of
instances and containers

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Container services on AWS

Image Repository
Amazon Elastic
Where the Docker images are
Container Registry
stored
(ECR)

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Container services on AWS

Host Amazon EC2 AWS Fargate

Where the containers are
executed

Image Repository
Amazon Elastic
Where the Docker images are
Container Registry
stored
(ECR)

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Container services on AWS
Administration Amazon Elastic
Amazon Elastic
Implementation, scheduling, Container Service
Container Service
scale and administration of for Kubernetes
(ECS)
the containers (EKS)

Host Amazon EC2 AWS Fargate

Where the containers are
executed

Image Repository
Amazon Elastic
Where the Docker images are
Container Registry
stored
(ECR)

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Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
 Scheduling and Orchestration
ECS

Cluster Manager Placement Engine

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Cluster overview
Amazon ECS

EC2 INSTANCES
TASK TASK
LOAD
BALANCER ECS
Internet AGENT
Container Container

TASK TASK Amazon

ECS
AGENT ECS
Container Container COMMUNICATION SERVICE

API

TASK TASK CLUSTER ADMINISTRATION

LOAD ECS
BALANCER AGENT KEY/VALUE STORAGE
Container Container

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Amazon ECS – Cluster

EC2 INSTANCES
TASK TASK
LOAD
BALANCER ECS
Internet AGENT
Container Container

TASK TASK Amazon

ECS
AGENT ECS
Container Container COMMUNICATION SERVICE

API

TASK TASK CLUSTER ADMINISTRATION

LOAD ECS
BALANCER AGENT KEY/VALUE STORAGE
Container Container

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Amazon ECS – Task

EC2 INSTANCES
TASK TASK
LOAD
BALANCER ECS
Internet AGENT
Container Container

TASK TASK Amazon

ECS
AGENT ECS
Container Container COMMUNICATION SERVICE

API

TASK TASK CLUSTER ADMINISTRATION

LOAD ECS
BALANCER AGENT KEY/VALUE STORAGE
Container Container

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Tasks
• Work Unit
• Group of containers
• Execute inside a container instance / EC2

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Amazon ECS – Service

EC2 INSTANCES
TASK TASK
LOAD
BALANCER ECS
Internet AGENT
Container Container

TASK TASK Amazon

ECS
AGENT ECS
Container Container COMMUNICATION SERVICE

API

TASK TASK CLUSTER ADMINISTRATION

LOAD ECS
BALANCER AGENT KEY/VALUE STORAGE
Container Container

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Create a Service
Load balancing between containers
Automatic failover in case of failure
Scale out and scale in

Elastic Load Balancing

Shared Data Volume Shared Data Volume Shared Data Volume

Containers Containers Containers

Container A Container A Container B

Container B Container C Container C

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AWS Fargate
 Without Fargate, you end up managing more than just containers

EC2 Instance

Docker ECS
OS
Agent Agent

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AWS Fargate

- Patching and Upgrading OS, agents, etc.

- Scaling the instance fleet for optimal utilization

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 Amazon Elastic Container Service

AWS Fargate
run serverless containers

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AWS Fargate

Managed by AWS
No EC2 Instances to provision, scale or manage

Elastic
Scale up & down seamlessly. Pay only for what you use
Your
containerized
applications
Integrated
with the AWS ecosystem: VPC Networking, Elastic Load
Balancing, IAM Permissions, CloudWatch and more

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Networking
 VPC INTEGRATION
172.31.0.0/16
• AWS VPC Networking Mode – each task gets
its own interface
Subnet
172.31.1.0/24
• All Fargate Tasks run in customer VPC and
subnets
Internet
ENI Fargate
Public / Private IP Task
• Configure security groups to control inbound208.57.73.13 / 172.31.1.164
& outbound traffic
Other Entities in VPC

• Public IP support
EC2 LB DB etc.

• Spread your application across subnets in

multiple Availability Zones (AZs) for
resiliency
Microservices DevOps
Monolith development lifecycle
developers services

delivery pipelines

build test release monitor

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Microservice development lifecycle
developers services

delivery pipelines

build test release monitor

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Microservice development lifecycle
developers services

delivery pipelines

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Microservice development lifecycle
developers services delivery pipelines

build test release monitor

build test release monitor

build test release monitor

build test release monitor

build test release monitor

build test release monitor

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Amazon ECS CI/CD
Container CI/CD on AWS ECS - Architecture
AWS Cloud

Region

Application
Amazon ECR Load Balancer

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1 2 4 5a

Git Push
end users AWS AWS AWS Amazon ECS
CodeCommit CodeBuild CodeDeploy

AWS
CodePipeline

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Lab 3
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• You have 45 minutes to complete this lab.

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