Amazon Lightsail is an easy-to-use cloud platform that offers everything you need to build an application or website with a cost-effective monthly plan. Lightsail containers, announced at re:Invent 2020, is focused on letting you easily build container-based applications and websites. To deploy containers in Lightsail you create a container service specifying only a couple parameters, its power and scale. AWS manages the compute, network, and traffic management for you. You can deploy up to ten containers in a container service and one can be chosen as a public endpoint. Lightsail provides a load-balanced, secure HTTPS endpoint to access the public endpoint.

This lab allows you to try out Lightsail containers by deploying a web server container.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this Lab you will be able to:

• Explain the Lightsail container service capacity model
• Understand the support container image sources for Lightsail containers
• Create Lightsail container deployments
• Monitor Lightsail container deployments

Intended Audience

This lab is intended for:

• Anyone working with Docker containers
• Anyone interested in an easy to use service for deploying containers

Prerequisites

You should possess:

• Basic understanding of Docker containers

The following content is sufficient to fulfill these prerequisites:

• The Introduction to Docker course