Recommendation: Deploy Docker application to AWS

Question

I got a local Docker stack running Node.js, MongoDB and Nginx. It runs perfectly using docker-compose up --build.

Now it's time to deploy my application to a production environment.

I have considered EC2 Container Service and EC2, but can you recommend an easier approach? The learning curve is steep!

Answer 1

• For MongoDB -

  Use AWS quick start MongoDB http://docs.aws.amazon.com/quickstart/latest/mongodb/overview.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/quickstart/latest/mongodb/architecture.html

• For rest of the docker stack i.e NodeJS & Nginx -

  Use the AWS ElasticBeanstalk Multi Container Deployment http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/create_deploy_docker_ecs.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/create_deploy_docker_v2config.html

Answer 2

You can install Kontena to AWS and use that to deploy your application to production environment (of course other cloud providers are also supported). Transition from Docker Compose is very smooth since kontena.yml uses similar syntax and keys as docker-compose.yml.

With Kontena you will have private image registry, load balancer and secret management built-in that are very useful when running containers in production.

Answer 3

Elastic Beanstalk supports Docker, as documented here. Elastic Beanstalk would manage the EC2 resources for you so that you, which should make things a bit easier on you.