I land here. it's not bad though a bit of a pitch, "AWS is the #1 place for you to run containers and 80% of all containers in the cloud run on @awscloud" << but will MINE?!?
scrolling down the page, I hit the jackpot. honestly, I want to print this table out on a massive poster board and parade it around the @awscloud offices
this makes it easier to understand all that's on offer
ignoring the "custom" option, I select the "sample-app" container & leave everything else as the default. at this point, I just want to see if I can get ANYTHING running in Fargate
I have an uneasy feeling in my stomach as this seems like a whole lot of infrastructure to build & pay for to run a single container through a "#serverless" service
I am not hopeful that this is what I want ☁️🧵 #cloud#devops
lots of things have finished building. 9 things to run my "#serverless" container and one of them MIGHT even be that container though the language ("task") makes that unclear ☁️🧵 #cloud#devops
the blue "View service" button takes me to the ECS console under "Cluster"
the launch type if "FARGATE" which at least gives me a hint that I have taken the route I wanted to
this is night and day from the last path I took...and yes, I realize that this is targeted at a different audience but you wouldn't know that if you started on the "Containers on AWS" page like I did
I'm honestly taken aback. this page 👆 clearly shows the status of the deployment, the public domain (auto-magically created for me), the endpoint, the versions, everything I could want to know about my container
to summarize: @awscloud Fargate is actually ECS with little-to-no #ux indicators for ppl trying to actually launch a container. lots of perceived overhead even though it's billed as #serverless
Lightsail aims to compete with VPS/hosting services but is actually an excellent way to run one-off containers (and 24/7 instances). lots of options for expansion and even an API/CLI too
it's worth exploring for these types of simple jobs!
…and the challenge of virtual events rears it ugly head. other more pressing matters popped up and I’ve missed what seems like a great talk and discussion on IAM 😔
lots of different legislation out there around data protection and #privacy. combined with a push to the cloud, lots of change in a traditionally slow area of GRC
of course, the execution of this script took a while. about 6 hours. so I ran a couple quick, smaller scale tests and when I had things locked. I ran the script 👆