Businesses need to continuously innovate in order to retain existing clients and attract new customers. To innovate at this pace and rapidly deliver engaging features for customers, many organizations are looking to containerize existing applications. The containerization process creates dozens of questions, many of which have long-term implications. While teams new to the process may find themselves stopping at each crossroad to ensure that they make the best design choice, NTT DATA Services Deploy Containers for AWS helps shortcut this process by answering these questions with a design that works as a starting point for most situations.

The AWS Solutions Consulting Offer, Deploy Containers for AWS, is a reference architecture based on automation and deployment best practices from hundreds of customer implementations. It cuts eight to ten weeks from the containerization journey by giving teams a solid foundation to start from. NTT DATA Services solid reference architecture shrinks developer time spent on infrastructure setup and configuration while enabling efficient developer workflows with short feedback loops when developing application code. The Deploy Containers for AWS consulting engagement enables enterprises to begin containerizing existing applications in as little as a week.

How it works:

Deploy Containers for AWS is a ready-to-deploy secure foundation that expedites the deployment of both greenfield container-based applications and already containerized applications. The solution is completely serverless and is AWS account- and region-agnostic. As part of the Deploy Containers for AWS implementation, you will receive AWS Container Deployment code and AWS CloudFormation code for:

• Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate
• Amazon API Gateway with VPC Link
• Amazon Route53
• AWS Secrets Manager
• AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)
• AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF)
• IAM Roles
• Security Groups
• Amazon CloudWatch Log Groups
• Amazon Cognito User Pools

Using Deploy Containers for AWS, the infrastructure is deployed with a repeatable process so that updates are consistently promoted. An application pipeline is deployed to consistently build, test and promote an application from lower to higher environments, for example from development to quality assurance to performance testing and production.

As Deploy Containers for AWS is composed of AWS serverless components, developers can quickly see the outcome of their development efforts, quickly iterating for optimal results. Performance testing is built into the application pipeline using the artillery.io testing framework to ensure code promoted to production can scale. Deployments are made using cross-account AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles to allow separation of nonproduction and production workloads. Teams can customize their implementation to fit their specific needs.