AWS Fargate: More! Faster! No Chaos with XebiaLabs

The promise of AWS Fargate is a game changer, providing a new launch type for containers with infinite scale and freeing you from having to configure or provision the application infrastructure stack. Essentially, it offers to containers what EC2 brought to virtual machines: you pay for what you use, and launch, launch, launch those containers.

But… Like Newton’s third law of motion, there is an equal and opposite reaction. The equal reaction and continuous force is the infinite deployment of containers, made possible by Fargate. You no longer need to think about servers or clusters, and, as AWS’ Werner Vogel pointed out, you build the container image, define where and how it will run, and pay for the exact CPU and memory your code needs. The opposite reaction is the organizational and code friction created by the freedom to design and launch:

• Have you optimized the container to reduce your costs?
• Are there any cost controls in place?
• Do changes in your application force changes in the Fargate configuration?
• Did you forget about security?
• You can’t forget about security!
• Does the existing or changed Fargate configuration conform to your internal or regulatory compliance requisites?

Fargate is by itself not a separate or additional container or offering.  It is a launch type, and still requires an orchestration engine to manage its deployment. While infinite scale is attractive, speed to availability essential, and reduced overhead and costs the goal, managing all of that is not only complicated, but risky. The XebiaLabs DevOps Platform now supports Fargate deployments on AWS. With Fargate, it’s not only easier to deploy applications on AWS ECS and EKS, you can add useful control tasks to perform essential operations, mitigating the risks of using this deployment type. From the XL Deploy component of the XebiaLabs DevOps Platform, you can control the scaling of the application, and manage running and stopping it on the AWS ECS or EKS* service. The XebiaLabs DevOps Platform allows you to use Fargate to deploy more containers at scale while maintaining the operational control you need. Without chaos. Try it for yourself today. Get a free trial of the XebiaLabs DevOps Platform, or contact us for more information and a demonstration.*AWS is expected to support Fargate on AWS EKS service in 2018.

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