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Spot Fleet Weighting and Pricing Explained

Tung Nguyen Tung Nguyen · July 16, 2018 · 7 min read
AWS docs explain How Spot Fleet Weighting Works under the “Spot Fleet Instance Weighting” section. I’ve read through the doc a few times now, and even so, when I come back to it months later, it still requires some mental wrangling to remember how it works. Been using some “mental” rules to understand how Spot Fleet Weighting works more quickly. Hopefully, you find these notes helpful also.
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What is the Difference Between Spot Fleet vs Spot Instances

Tung Nguyen Tung Nguyen · July 15, 2018 · 4 min read
One of the biggest game-changers to spot instances are spot fleets. I mentioned how you could save 50%-90% when you take advantage of spot instance pricing in: How Does Spot Pricing Work? Spot fleets is where things get even more interesting. With a normal spot instance request, you place a bid for a specific instance type in one specific AZ and hope you get it. With spot fleets, you can request a variety of different instance types that meet your requirements. Additionally, you can spread your spot fleet bet across multiple AZs to increase the likelihood of getting your instance fulfilled. It’s like playing rollette and being able to bet a single chip on multiple numbers. Insanely cool! The method dramatically increases the chances of you getting instances available at your spot bid price. Like I said, game-changer.
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UFO How to Create Unlimited Extra Environments

Tung Nguyen Tung Nguyen · July 12, 2018 · 3 min read
Have you ever been asked to deploy a branch of code to the staging or uat environment but cannot because the environment is currently in used by someone else or another feature? Usually, you end up having to wait until the environment free. Ultimately, after this happens often enough a common request is to build additional environments. This can take some time though, so you still have to wait.
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UFO and ECS Fargate Introduction Tutorial

Tung Nguyen Tung Nguyen · July 11, 2018 · 6 min read
This is an introductory guide to ufo, an ECS deployment tool, with AWS Fargate. Ufo helps you deploy Docker images to AWS ECS. With Fargate, you can run docker containers without having to manage servers, for an interesting “serverless” option.
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UFO ECS Deployment Tool Introduction

Tung Nguyen Tung Nguyen · July 06, 2018 · 5 min read
This is an introductory guide to ufo, an ECS deployment tool. Ufo helps you deploy Docker images to AWS ECS quickly. One pretty neat thing about ufo is that it provides direct access and control to the ECS Task Definition. So you can customize your ECS container options to your heart’s content. We’ll also talk about some of the resources that ufo creates.
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UFO Version 4 Release: Load Balancer Support

Tung Nguyen Tung Nguyen · July 05, 2018 · 5 min read
There are some pretty big changes for ufo version 4. Here’s what’s new: Fuller CLI Toolkit Commands Load Balancer Support Updated Tutorial Guide Security Groups Improved Fargate Support Extra Env Support CloudFormation Implementation Upgrade Guide
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How To Run Migrations on AWS ECS and Other One off Tasks

Tung Nguyen Tung Nguyen · September 12, 2017 · 3 min read
Once a developer came up to me and told me that he was ready to deploy, but the deploy required migrations be run. He asked me an innocent question, how should he run migrations. Embarrassingly, because we were still evolving our tooling for the new infrastructure, we did not have a process for this simple task. We came up with an ad-hoc process that was honestly pretty terrible. It went like this:
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Ufo — Easily Build Docker Images and Deploy Containers to AWS ECS header image

Ufo — Easily Build Docker Images and Deploy Containers to AWS ECS

Tung Nguyen Tung Nguyen · June 14, 2017 · 11 min read
Amazon EC2 Container Service, ECS, is an AWS service that provisions and manages Docker containers on a cluster of EC2 instances. As with most of AWS services, it is great and simply requires a little tooling wrapped around it to create a smooth flow. Ufo is a simple tool that makes building and shipping Docker containers to AWS ECS super easy.
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