Cloud Computing: Now AWS users get to deploy with Docker, too
April 24, 2014
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Sedar Yegulalp.
Never let it be said that Amazon is falling behind in cloud computing. The newest wrinkle with AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a twist on a long-standing technology, Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon’s application deployment and management system for all of its cloud services. Beanstalk has now been upgraded to support deploying and launching applications containerized through Docker.
Any Docker image can be deployed this way, whether from Docker’s public repository or from one’s own private store of containers. Users are left to create a .JSON file that describes the image to be used and a few other notations, and even that’s not mandatory because an existing Dockerfile, as they are called, will typically work as-is…
Some additional configuration might be needed to set up external resources (a database to be used by the application, for example), but Elastic Beanstalk already has configuration options to allow deployment of a database to go with a Beanstalk-managed app. Amazon has posted a quick demo video on how the whole process works…
Read more from the source @ http://www.infoworld.com/t/amazon-web-services/now-aws-users-get-deploy-docker-too-241261
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