Philipps Blog
Living in Bavaria. Working in the Cloud. AWS Container Hero
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A better solution to ECS AutoScaling
Update: It seems this blog post was the trigger for AWS to build their own solution. Since CapacityProviders are released I recommend to use them instead. Have a look into Nick Coulton’s deep dive to understand how they work. In a previous blog post, I showed you how an ECS...
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Install Docker Swarm on AWS via CloudFormation
Have you ever tried to setup a Docker Swarm cluster on AWS by yourself? In this blog post, I’ll provide the necessary CloudFormation templates that are needed to setup a Docker Swarm cluster from scratch. If you want to avoid setting up Docker Swarm manually, have a look at Docker...
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Install Docker 1.13 on AWS via CloudFormation
Docker 1.13 has recently been released and what I realized is that there are no good CloudFormation templates available. So I created my own CloudFormation template which creates an EC2 instance based on Ubuntu AMI and installs Docker. If you just want to play around with Docker (without any installation)...
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Docker on ECS: Scale your cluster automatically
When you run an ECS cluster in production it happens that the cluster becomes too small and it can’t schedule new tasks (AWS term for running containers). Of course, you can add new container instances (EC2) but why should you do it manually when you can automate it? On the...
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Unboxing the new Docker for AWS beta
One of the advantages of being a Docker Captain is the early access to new products. Recently, I got my invitation email for the Docker for AWS beta and I want to share my experience with you. Setup - What do you get? I was curious - what exactly is...