Amazon ECS Training in Thimphu, Bhutan

This course provides hands-on training on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), covering both EC2 and Fargate launch types. Participants will learn how to containerize applications, define task definitions, create clusters, and automate deployments using ECS and other AWS services such as CloudWatch, IAM, and ALB. The course also touches on CI/CD integration and best practices for ECS deployment and monitoring.

ECS Foundations and Setup

Introduction to Containers and ECS

• Docker recap: containers, images, registries

• ECS overview: launch types

• ECS architecture: clusters, tasks, services

• IAM roles and security basics for ECS

ECS Setup and Configuration

• Creating ECS clusters

• Writing task definitions

• Running services with Fargate and EC2 launch types

• Using AWS CLI and ECS console

ECS Networking, Scaling, and Logging

ECS Networking and Load Balancing

• Configuring VPC, subnets, and security groups

• Using Application Load Balancer with ECS

• Service discovery with Route 53

• Health checks and rolling updates

ECS Monitoring and Logging

• CloudWatch logs integration

• Monitoring with CloudWatch metrics and alarms

• Resource scaling with ECS Service Auto Scaling

• Troubleshooting and debugging container issues

Hands-on Exercises

Summary and Conclusion