building a docker image in AWS with CLI

Question

I was using gcloudbefore and could build a docker image on a GCP machine as follows:

gcloud builds submit ./my-docker-dir/ -t eu.gcr.io/<path>/<component>:<tag> --timeout 30m --machine-type e2-highcpu-32\n

Is there a similar AWS equivalent?

Answer 1

No, there's no such alternative. With AWS you use docker to build & push to ECR.

An example workflow would be:

0. Create a docker file and build it with:

docker build -t hello-world .

1. Authenticate your Docker client to the Amazon ECR registry to which you intend to push your image.

aws ecr get-login-password --region region | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin aws_account_id.dkr.ecr.region.amazonaws.com

2. Create an ECR repository

aws ecr create-repository \
    --repository-name hello-world \
    --image-scanning-configuration scanOnPush=true \
    --region region

3. Tag the docker image you've built.

docker tag hello-world:latest aws_account_id.dkr.ecr.region.amazonaws.com/hello-world:latest

4. Push it to your ECR repo.

docker push aws_account_id.dkr.ecr.region.amazonaws.com/hello-world:latest