ECS Quiz
A company wants to deploy docker containers to the AWS Cloud. They also want a highly scalable service which can help manage the orchestration of these containers. Which of the following would be ideal for such a requirement?
A. Use the Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes.
B. Install a custom orchestration tool on EC2 Instances.
C. Use SQS to orchestrate the messages between docker containers.
D. Use AWS Lambda functions to embed the logic for container orchestration.
A. Use the Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes.
AWS Documentation mentions the following;
Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) is a managed service that makes it easy for you to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to install and operate your own Kubernetes clusters. Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating the deployment, scaling, and management ofcontainerized applications. Operating Kubernetes for production applications presents a number of challenges. You need to manage the scaling and availability of your Kubernetes masters and persistence layer by ensuring that you have chosen appropriate instance types, running them across multiple Availability Zones, monitoring their health, and replacing unhealthy nodes. You need to patch and upgrade your masters and worker nodes to ensure that you are running the latest version of Kubernetes. This all requires expertise and a lot of manual work. With Amazon EKS, upgrades and high availability are managed for you by AWS. Amazon EKS runs three Kubernetes masters across three Availability Zones in order to ensure high availability. Amazon EKS automatically detects and replaces unhealthy masters, and it provides automated version upgrades and patching for the masters.
For more information on the Elastic Container Service, please visit the below URL:
https://aws.amazon.com/eks/
