Modernize your Application using the AWS App2Container cmd Tool

Modernizing a monolithic application is not so easy. It takes a lot of time and effort when it comes to identifying the related dependencies. These days it is really a need to modernize or containerized your application so that we can make them portable, increase development agility, standardize our CI/CD processes, and reduce operational costs.

AWS has recently come up with a command-line tool called “App2Container” which takes care of all the responsibility. It also generates all the necessary cloud formation templates/scripts which are required for the deployment. The underlying resources which will be generated are ECS Fargate which is basically a Serverless

I have used this command-line tool and personally I found is very useful.

Most importantly, it is very handy for those who are new to the world of docker containers. As of now, it only supports Java and .Net Application.

AWS App2Container — Getting Started

Prerequisite-

Before getting started your machine must have Java and Docker installed.

You can begin then by running a one-time initialization on the installed server for the App2Container CLI with the init command. For downloading the App2Container use the below aws link…