AWS

If you’re deploying containerised workloads on AWS, you’ll quickly hit the ECS vs EKS question. Both run containers. Both integrate with the AWS ecosystem. But they solve the problem differently, and picking the wrong one creates unnecessary complexity. What They Are Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service) is AWS’s own container orchestration service. You define tasks (container specs), put them in services, and ECS handles scheduling and scaling. It’s opinionated, tightly integrated with AWS, and designed to be simple. ...

Ubuntu is the most common Linux distribution for running Docker — whether on a local dev machine, a CI runner, or an EC2 instance. The install process is the same in all three cases. Update the System sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y Install Required Packages sudo apt install -y apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common Add Docker’s Official GPG Key curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg Add the Docker Repository echo \ "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg] \ https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable" \ | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null Install Docker Engine sudo apt update sudo apt install -y docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io Start Docker and Enable at Boot sudo systemctl start docker sudo systemctl enable docker Allow Non-Root Usage (Recommended) By default, Docker commands require sudo. Add your user to the docker group to remove that requirement: ...