Containers

Tag: HAQM Elastic Container Registry (HAQM ECR)

Building multi-arch containers with GitHub Actions in AWS

This blog was authored by Zakiya Randall, Technical Account Manager and co-written with Muru Bhaskaran, Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect. Introduction As the landscape of computing continues to evolve, there is a growing emphasis on supporting a diverse range of computing architectures. This shift is driven by the need for flexibility, efficiency, and performance optimization across […]

Signing and Validating OCI Artifacts with AWS Signer

This post is an extension of our Container Image Signing blog series. In our first post, we discussed the motivations and fundamental concepts behind cryptographic signing for containers. Introduction Organizations today are adding additional security measures to their software development lifecycles (SDLC) due to compliance, governance, or executive requirements. For containerized applications, one such security […]

Announcing remote cache support in HAQM ECR for BuildKit clients

This feature will be pre-installed and supported by Docker when version 25.0 is released. This feature is already released in Buildkit versions of 0.12 or later and is available now on Finch versions 0.8 or later. Introduction HAQM Elastic Container Registry (HAQM ECR) is a fully managed container registry that customers use to store, share, […]

Building better container images

Introduction Many applications built today or modernized from monoliths are done so using microservice architectures. The microservice architecture makes applications easier to scale and faster to develop, which enables innovation and accelerating time-to-market for new features. In addition, microservices also provide lifecycle autonomy enabling applications to have independent build and deploy processes, which provides technological […]

Accelerating Development Velocity with AWS App Runner and Cloud Native Buildpacks

Introduction In May 2021 we introduced AWS App Runner, the simplest way to build and run your containerized web application in AWS. AWS App Runner gives you a fully managed container-native service. There are no orchestrators to configure, build pipelines to set up, load balancers to optimize, or Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates to rotate. […]

Preventing Kubernetes misconfigurations using Datree

David Feldstein, Sr. Containers Specialist AWS co-authored with Shimon Tolts, AWS Community Hero, CEO & Co-founder Datree.io Introduction Kubernetes has taken the world by storm, according to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF) Annual Survey of 2021, with 96% of organizations as either using or evaluating Kubernetes. Kubernetes is a production-grade container orchestration platform that […]

How to containerize legacy code into Red Hat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA)

Introduction Enterprise customers have trained their IT staff on legacy programming languages, like COBOL, for decades. These legacy programs have stood the test of time and still run many mission-critical business applications which are typical for these legacy platforms. While various migration solutions like  AWS Blu Age and AWS Micro Focus Enterprise technology exist for […]

How to build your containers for ARM and save with Graviton and Spot instances on HAQM ECS

HAQM Elastic Container Service (HAQM ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service that enables you to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications. For the underlying compute capacity of an HAQM ECS cluster, customers can choose between different types and sizes of HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) instances. For many years, machines based on […]

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Create a pipeline with canary deployments for HAQM EKS with AWS App Mesh

NOTICE: October 04, 2024 – This post no longer reflects the best guidance for configuring a service mesh with HAQM EKS and its examples no longer work as shown. Please refer to newer content on HAQM VPC Lattice. ——– In this post, we will demonstrate how customers can leverage different AWS services in conjunction with […]

CI/CD with HAQM EKS using AWS App Mesh and Gitlab CI

NOTICE: October 04, 2024 – This post no longer reflects the best guidance for configuring a service mesh with HAQM EKS and its examples no longer work as shown. Please refer to newer content on HAQM VPC Lattice. ——- Using containers brings flexibility, consistency, and portability in a DevOps culture. One of the essential parts […]