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Memmo Fiero
Memmo Fiero

Reputation: 109

Will single docker container scale automatically on Amazon's EC2?

I created a single Docker container on Amazon's EC2 default instance. I am wondering will my app automatically scale if there is a sudden spike in traffic?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 108

Answers (1)

Ray
Ray

Reputation: 41488

Not much is setup automatically in AWS. In very broadly outlined strokes, to achieve your goal, you'd need to roll the following:

  • An elastic load balancer
  • A launch config based on the image of the EC2 instance you want to scale.
  • An autoscaling group set to add another instance based on load

This is way outside the scope of what can be answered quickly in a SO post.

Judging by the question however, I'd recommend learning about ElasticBeanstalk (EB). You can setup a docker enabled beanstalk. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/create_deploy_docker.html

EB takes handles configuring the above for you--all you need to do is specify min an max instances you want to scale to.

Upvotes: 2

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