AWS: Docker and AWS - creating my first EC2 compute node

My first idea after all my experiences with docker was to run my docker application with AWS.
After registration i searched for docker inside AWS and i only found this:

Hmm. Does not look like i expected. I thought, that i have just to upload my docker image and then i can select on which AWS compute nodes i want to run this image.

But let's give it a try.

First step is to install Docker on an Amazon Linux instance:

Startpoint is  https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/

At the left side in the top bar you have to choose the region, where you EC2 instance should be launched:

Then:

 

i choose the one with "the repositories include docker, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ..."

 You have to download the keypair. Otherwise you will not be able to connect to your machine!

 

And after a short time:

And here we go:

schroff@zerberus:~/AWS$ chmod 400 181111-first-aws-keypair.pem 

schroff@zerberus:~/AWS$ ssh -i 181111-first-aws-keypair.pem ec2-user@ec2-35-180-192-27.eu-west-3.compute.amazonaws.com



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https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/2018.03-release-notes/

14 package(s) needed for security, out of 30 available

Run "sudo yum update" to apply all updates.

[ec2-user@ip-172-31-47-127 ~]$ 

If you want to get your ssh parameters, just click on the "connect" button besides the "launch instance" button and the following popup will help you: