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Installing Docker in an AWS EC2 instance

AWS offers their own EC2 Container Service (ECS) which simplifies deploying Docker containers to EC2 instances (and clusters of instances) and management of your containers. If you want to do-it-yourself though, you can easily install docker yourself in your own instance.

For example, in an Ubuntu EC2 instance,

sudo apt-get install docker.io

Start the docker service with:

sudo service docker start

If you want to manage you own Docker install on EC2, AWS have a guide walking you what you need to know – for further details see here: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/docker-basics.html

(Latest Ubuntu apt packages are docker-ce and docker-ee – see the Docker docs here for more info)

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Creating an AWS EC2 instance with a Public IP

The first couple of times you create a new EC2 instance on AWS this is an easy option to miss, and it defaults to private IP only.

If you want to create an EC2 instance with a public IP, when you create your instance from the dashboard ensure this option is set to ‘Enable’ :

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Microsoft teaming up with Red Hat for RHEL on Azure (and RH looking at node.js and Java integration options)

Red Hat recently announced a partnership with Microsoft where Microsoft is now offering Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as an option on Azure. Although Microsoft has been offering Linux based IaaS offerings on Azure for a few years already, adding RHEL to the mix introduces an option with the backing of Red Hat enterprise support.

Red Hat are also apparently looking to increase integration options between Java and node.js for it’s clients, according to Rich Sharples, senior director for product management at Red Hat, recently speaking at a node.js conference in Portland.

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Real life story – the journey from dev to prod with containers

This story on Techcrunch, ‘I want to run stateful containers too‘ rang home with me as it reads very similar to my own learning experience playing with containers so far, although at this point I haven’t had the opportunity to take a container based system into production, but he covers a lot of the same questions as I have so far. I imagine this journey and shift in thinking from monolithic systems to container based services is a common experience for everyone starting down this path.

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