Meeting Details

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Date / Time

• Monday, January 19th, 2015
• 6pm

Location

Google+ Hangout

• The Google+ Hangout is limited to 10 attendees.
• If you want to ask questions or add to the discussion, join the hangout.
• If you want to silently watch the meeting, then please watch the YouTube livestream.

YouTube

• The meeting will be streamed live on YouTube.
• A recording of the meeting will be available online after the meeting.

AWS News and Updates

• New Amazon Tag Editor: makes it easier for admins to group resources on a logical basis whereas before they had to tag them service-by-service, region-by-region according to the AWS blog post.

• Amazon Elastic Transcoder now Supports Media File Encryption

• RDS Encryption at Rest

• New C4 instances are now available for Amazon EC2

• Amazon Kinesis Client Library for Ruby ** Build Kinesis Apps for processing data from Kinesis streams with the new KCL for Ruby.

  • Ruby Gem
  • Ruby Doc

Presentation:

Amazon ECS (EC2 Container Service)

• re:Invent ECS Presentation
• CoreOS AMI supports ECS

• Register for the ECS Preview

• Using the AWS CLI Create an ECS Cluster

aws ecs create-cluster --cluster-name awsmaine-ecs --profile awsmaine-ecs

• Create a VPC with external connectivity enabled.

• Create an ECS UserProfile (Role)

• Launch a couple of EC2 instances using an ECS-enabled AMI.

• The ECS-enabled AMI is a very lightweight version of the Amazon Linux AMI, optimized and tuned for ECS.

• UserData

#!/bin/bash
echo "ECS_CLUSTER=awsmaine-ecs" >> /etc/ecs/ecs.config

• Retrieve ECS Cluster Status

aws ecs list-container-instances --cluster awsmaine-ecs --profile awsmaine-ecs

aws ecs describe-container-instances --cluster awsmaine-ecs \
  --container-instances arn:aws:ecs:us-east-1:xxxxxxxxxxx:container-instance/xxxxxxxxxxxxxx \
  --profile awsmaine-ecs

• Create a simple task definition and register it:

aws ecs register-task-definition --family sleep360 \
  --container-definitions file://$HOME/tmp/task.json \
  --profile awsmaine-ecs

• Run 10 copies of the task:

aws ecs run-task --cluster awsmaine-ecs --task-definition sleep360:1 --count 10 --profile awsmaine-ecs

• List the running tasks:

aws ecs list-tasks --cluster awsmaine-ecs --profile awsmaine-ecs

Architecture Workshop