Containers in AWS | For Absolute Beginners

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve certainly heard of containers and how popular they’ve become for doing software development. But what exactly are they, what are the benefits of using them, and what does that look like in AWS?
In this high-level overview, I describe all of those things. We’ll look at how containers differ from virtual machines, and then dig into the specific container-related services from AWS: Elastic Container Service (ECS), Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Fargate, and Elastic Container Registry (ECR).
This video is all theory, but check out this hands-on tutorial for how to work with the Elastic Container Service (ECS): • Containers with Amazon... .
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00:00 - Video introduction
00:22 - What the heck are containers and how can they help me?
01:04 - Containers explained, and contrasted with virtual machines
03:55 - Docker and AWS
04:47 - Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) basics
05:15 - Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) basics
05:58 - Launch types for containers, including serverless Fargate
06:38 - Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)

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[@hesham000]

Thank you for the video. Amazing way of explaining it. I watch other videos, and this one it so clear. The one thing I see on containers is that I don't see we install OS. So if I have windows on my computer and I want to run linux on top of it like VM, I should not use containerization.

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Awesome, thanks for the nice comment! 🥰 The containers use the same OS kernel as the host. So if you have a Linux container, for example, it would need to run on a Linux host (Windows on Windows, etc.). But there are ways around that. On Windows, for example, you could create/run a Linux virtual machine, and then run the containers on that machine. Hopefully that makes sense. 😊 Thanks for watching!

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[@sreyamuppalla9219]

What's the difference between Fargate and Kubernetes?

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Hi Sreya! 😊 Here's a pretty good comparison of the two: blog.knoldus.com/aws-fargate-vs-kubernetes-which-container-orchestration-tool-do-you-need/

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[@user-og8bu5lx8l]

If containers sharing host os and there is no guest OS then that means all containers have same operating system as of host? So if we want to test our application in different operating systems then containers are not suitable, is my understanding correct?

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

You're correct...the containers use the same OS kernel as the host. So if you have a Linux container, for example, it would need to run on a Linux host (Windows on Windows, etc.). But there are ways around that. On Windows, for example, you could create/run a Linux virtual machine, and then run the containers on that machine. Hopefully that makes sense. 😊 Thanks for watching!

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[@techsal]

Why would I need a Host Operating system when Hypervisor is doing this job already, certainly I won't need a Host OS, for instance a server hardware can have a Hypervisor without the need for any HOST OS , and this hypervisor could be for the sake of example: vmware's esxi

[@TinyTechnicalTutorials]

Hi @techsal! 👋 You've hit on an interesting distinction between Type 1 (bare-metal) and Type 2 (hosted) hypervisors. Hypervisors like ESXi (Type 1) can run directly on server hardware without needing a host operating system. A Type 2 (hosted) hypervisor requires a host operating system because it runs as an application within that OS, leveraging the host operating system's device drivers and management capabilities. More here if it's helpful: aws.amazon.com/compare/the-difference-between-type-1-and-type-2-hypervisors/ Great question! 😊

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Thanks @@TinyTechnicalTutorials I don't think we use Type 2 anymore in enterprises, for me it has been like at least 15 years ago that we stopped using type 2 and moved to type 1, thanks for the response

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May God help me understand what this Container thing is...........because WOW am struggling 😭😭😭

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definitely not for ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS. But I get the jest

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