.NET Workloads on Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate

Course description

In this course, you will learn to:

• Identify and differentiate between containers running on Amazon ECS and Amazon ECS on Fargate.

• Articulate use cases for containers running in clusters on Amazon ECS or Amazon ECS on Fargate.

• Differentiate between clusters, tasks, task definitions, services, and other resources you will encounter when working with Amazon ECS and Fargate.

• Begin using Amazon ECS on Fargate, and Amazon ECR.

Course outline

Lesson 1: Introduction to .NET on AWS

Running .NET applications in the AWS Cloud

.NET Core and .NET

Lesson 2: Introduction to Amazon ECS

Overview of Amazon ECS

Amazon ECS launch types

Amazon ECS resources

Example task definition

Lesson 3: Persisting Application Data

Purpose of persisting application data

Persistent storage options for Linux containers

Persistent storage options for Windows containers

Other persistent storage options

Lesson 4: Introduction to AWS Fargate

Overview of Fargate

Using Fargate

Deploying .NET applications to Linux containers on Fargate

Deploying .NET applications to Windows containers on Fargate

Determining when to use Amazon ECS or Amazon ECS on Fargate

Lesson 5: Amazon ECR and Container Images

Overview of Amazon ECR

Public and private registries

Creating a private repository

Pull through cache repositories

Pushing and pulling images

Authorizing repository access

Lesson 6: Deploying .NET applications to Containers on AWS

Deployment tools for containerized .NET applications

Deploying .NET applications to containers on AWS with Visual Studio

Installing the AWS Toolkit

Working with Amazon ECS and Amazon ECR from the AWS Explorer view

Deploying to Amazon ECS and Amazon ECR from Visual Studio

Installing Publish to AWS

Deploying from Publish to AWS

Deploying from CI/CD pipelines

Deleting deployments

Lesson 7: Deploying .NET Containers to AWS from the Command Line

Command line deployment tools

Downloading and installing AWS.Deploy.Tools

Deploying from the command line

Deploying containers from CI/CD pipelines

Creating custom deployment projects

Deleting container deployments

Downloading and installing Amazon.ECS.Tools

Using Amazon.ECS.Tools commands

Using an options configuration file

Deploying containers from CI/CD pipelines and deleting containers

Deploying .NET containers to AWS from Azure DevOps

Lesson 8: Building an Amazon ECS Service with an ASP.NET Website

Setting up an AWS environment

Setting up a development environment

Creating an Amazon DynamoDB table

Creating a WeatherAPI project

Testing WeatherAPI locally

Deploying WeatherAPI to Amazon ECS

Updating the Amazon ECS task role and testing

Creating a WeatherSite project

Testing WeatherSite locally

Deploying WeatherSite to Amazon ECS

Deploying an update

Lesson 9: Additional Resources

Curated list of resources for .NET workloads