In this third part of the ECS article series we’ll take a deeper look into the more advanced capabilities of the AWS world in order to enhance our current ECS deployment. Separating the application layers to scale independently is one of the main aspect of this article.

Having talked about AWS ECS in general and walked through the required setup, in this second part of the AWS ECS article we will create a simple ECS cluster and deploy the created Docker containers onto it.

Going from running Docker in the command line to a production scenario can be quite challenging since there is so much more to cover and so much more possibilities to do it right. One solid way of Docker and the Cloud is AWS.

In the next three articles we’ll go through the different possibilities AWS has to offer especially regarding Container as a Service. We will deploy the cuba-ordermanagement CUBA app on an ECS cluster and use different features of the AWS cloud to leverage the full cloud potential to CUBA.

With CUBA Filters and aggregation a lot of ad-hoc quiering is possible. But to get meaningful information out of the raw data if only possible to a very limited degree. In this blog post i want to show you how CUBA can be expanded with a powerful business intelligence tool called Metabase.

In this blog post i want to show you how you can create really custom front-ends for your CUBA based application. If you want to have customer facing UI as part of your software, here’s how you can create them.