Terraform for ECS Containers Overview

Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: 2 minutes and 13 seconds
Students: 446
Rating: 5/5

In this lesson, we show you how to use terraform in combination with AWS to create the necessary infrastructure to deploy a container to ECS Fargate.

Learning Objectives

  • Creating the required infrastructure for your containers
  • Creating the task definition that you can then deploy as a service
  • And we’ll cover some best practices around using Terraform

Intended Audience

  • Those interested in managing cloud resources in an automated fashion and deploying containers
  • Essentially anyone with a background in System Administration, DevOps, or Software Development

Prerequisites

  • Scripting in general, although Terraform is NOT a computer language, it doesn’t hurt if you know how to code
  • AWS Services to run and support containers, such as ECS, EC2, Load Balancing, and Security groups
Covered Topics