Components Of AWS Fargate
- Clusters: Clusters are the logical grouping of the tasks and services in Fargate.
- Task Definitions: Task Definitions are text files where the user can describe one or more containers that form the applications. They are used to define various specifications or parameters to be used in Fargate containers. They can be called the blueprint of your Fargate application.
- Tasks: A task is the initialization or instantiation of the task definition. Users can create multiple tasks from the same task definition in a cluster. Users can run a single task or multiple tasks at a time.
- Services: Services is a tool in Fargate to run the tasks that have been created. This can be used to run multiple tasks at a time in a cluster. They also replace the tasks with new tasks based on task definition if the existing task fails or stops.
Introduction to AWS FargateAmazon ECS vs AWS Fargate
AWS Fargate is a feature in container services in Amazon Web Services that can be used to run your containers without having to manage the server or the underlying architecture. It is a serverless computing engine for containers. It is a pay-as-you-go model, i.e. pay for the resources you are using. Furthermore, it can be used with container services in AWS like ECS (Amazon Elastic Container Service) and EKS (Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service). It is one of the most important features of serverless computing in AWS. Whenever you opt for Fargate, the infrastructure will be owned and managed by AWS(Amazon Web Services). It saves you time by automating features like patching, updating, and dealing with resources. The operating systems supported by Fargate are Amazon Linux 2, Windows Server 2019 Full, and Windows Server 2019 Core.