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Discussion on: How to Deploy Containers Directly to AWS ECS using Docker

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Stephen Gerkin

I read about the partnership between AWS and Docker recently, but haven't had a chance to try it out to see how much simpler it was. This is impressively simple. Fargate already took a lot of the management headache out of the equation, this makes it about as simple as maintaining a GitHub repo!

The Docker ECS integration also offers the possibility to use secrets. The docker ecs secret command allows you to manage secrets created on AWS SMS without having to install the AWS CLI.

This is awesome. Setting up secrets locally with Docker was not an easy process... this was the only part of the documentation I have found to be very poor (especially in comparison to the rest of the Docker documentation). Integration with Secrets Manager is, for sure, a welcome addition.