Running containers on Cloud using Docker Desktop

• Docker and ACI
• Docker and ECS

Azure CLI Command to create an ACI instance

az container create --resource-group rg-dockeraci --name dockerpenang --image sujaypillai/simplewhale --dns-name-label acidockerdemo --ports 80

Amazon ECS deployment

To run locally using docker-compose

docker-compose up

Create AWS Context

docker context create ecs dockerpenangdemo

docker context ls
docker context ls
NAME                TYPE                DESCRIPTION                               DOCKER ENDPOINT               KUBERNETES ENDPOINT   ORCHESTRATOR                                                                            
azcloud             aci                 rg-dockeraci@southeastasia                                                                    
default             moby                Current DOCKER_HOST based configuration   unix:///var/run/docker.sock                         swarm
dockerpenangdemo *  ecs                 ap-southeast-1               

Accessing Private Docker images

To pull private images from another registry, including Docker Hub, you’ll have to create a Username + Password (or a Username + Token) secret on the AWS Secrets Manager service.

docker secret create hubaccesstoken --username sujaypillai --password <yourDockerHubToken>
arn:aws:secretsmanager:ap-southeast-1:123456789101:secret:hubaccesstoken-asrWLR

docker secret ls            
ID                                                                                NAME                DESCRIPTION
arn:aws:secretsmanager:ap-southeast-1:123456789101:secret:hubaccesstoken-asrWLR   hubaccesstoken  

Once created, you can use this ARN in your Compose file using using x-aws-pull_credentials custom extension with the Docker image URI for your service.

version: 3.8
services:
  worker:
    image: sujaypillai/privateimage
    x-aws-pull_credentials: "arn:aws:secretsmanager:ap-southeast-1:123456789101:secret:hubaccesstoken-asrWLR"

Login to Amazon ECR

aws ecr get-login-password --region ap-southeast-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin 123456789101.dkr.ecr.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com

Pushing image to Amazon ECR

Tag the locally developed image to in the form aws_account_id.dkr.ecr.region.amazonaws.com/repositoryname

docker tag sujaypillai/timestamper 123456789101.dkr.ecr.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/timestamper:1.0

docker push 123456789101.dkr.ecr.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/timestamper:1.0

Running your docker container on Amazon ECS

Command	Description
docker compose up	This by default uses docker-compose.yml
docker compose up -f docker-compose-ecs.yml	Specifying a particular compose file

Check the status for your services running on Amazon ECS

docker compose ps

Convert your existing docker-compose definition to CloudFormation template

docker compose convert > cf-template.yml

Stream the logs on to your terminal

docker compose logs

Tear down the cluster created above

docker compose down