Initial commit of docker-cloud project

Author: tgvashworth

README.md

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    <br>Build a server that takes data from a database and serves it in `json` format.
 1. [Multiple Servers](./multiple-servers) - `impl/multiple-servers`
    <br>Build and run file & API servers behind nginx in a simple multi-server architecture.
+1. [Docker & Cloud Deployment](./docker-cloud/)
+   <br>Use containers to reproducibly deploy applications into the cloud
 
 ## Contributing
 

docker-cloud/README.md

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+# Docker & Cloud Deployment
+
+Learning objectives:
+
+- Det up Docker locally
+- `Dockerfile` syntax & how to containerise an application
+- Run applications locally using Docker
+- Push container images to a repository ([ECR](https://aws.amazon.com/ecr/))
+- Deploy images to Elastic Cloud resources using Elastic Container Service
+- Destroy cloud resources to mitigate cost
+
+This project relies on access to an AWS account, with permissions to configure ECS, Fargate, and Elastic Load Balancing.
+
+Timebox: 1-2 days