🐳 AWS ECS Containers - Advanced

Service Mesh with App Mesh

# Create virtual service
aws appmesh create-virtual-service \
  --mesh-name my-mesh \
  --virtual-service-name app.local

Blue-Green Deployments

# Create new task definition
aws ecs register-task-definition \
  --family my-app \
  --container-definitions file://containers.json

# Update service
aws ecs update-service \
  --cluster my-cluster \
  --service my-service \
  --task-definition my-app:2 \
  --deployment-configuration maximumPercent=200,minimumHealthyPercent=100

Capacity Providers

# Create capacity provider
aws ecs create-capacity-provider \
  --name my-cp \
  --auto-scaling-group-provider autoScalingGroupArn=arn:...

Key Takeaways

• **Service mesh** adds observability

• **Blue-green** enables zero-downtime

• **Capacity providers** optimize resources

• **Monitoring** ensures reliability

Next Steps

Learn about cost optimization strategies.