Infrastructure as Code
Infrastructure as code (IaC) is the process of managing and provisioning computer data centers through machine-readable definition files, rather than physical hardware configuration or interactive configuration tools.[1] The IT infrastructure managed by this comprises both physical equipment such as bare-metal servers as well as virtual machines and associated configuration resources. The definitions may be in a version control system. It can use either scripts or declarative definitions, rather than manual processes, but the term is more often used to promote declarative approaches. wiki
AWS EC2 Instances
Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS (HVM), SSD Volume Type
- t2.micro
- t2.small
Docker
Docker is a set of platform-as-a-service (PaaS) products that use operating-system-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers. Containers are isolated from one another and bundle their own software, libraries and configuration files; they can communicate with each other through well-defined channels. All containers are run by a single operating-system kernel and are thus more lightweight than virtual machines. wiki
Best Practices
Install
To get started with Docker Engine - Community on Ubuntu, make sure you meet the prerequisites, then install Docker.
Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications. With Compose, you use a YAML file to configure your application’s services, then install Docker Compose .