---
title: "Easy container example"
description: "NGINX container example"
url: "https://www.pulumi.com/dev/examples/aws-ts-containers/"
image: "https://www.pulumi.com/assets/og/dev/examples/aws-ts-containers.png"
---
# Easy container example
NGINX container example
- Source on GitHub: https://github.com/pulumi/examples/tree/master/aws-ts-containers
- Deploy with Pulumi: https://app.pulumi.com/new?template=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fpulumi%2Fexamples%2Ftree%2Fmaster%2Faws-ts-containers
## Get started with this example
This example lives in the [pulumi/examples](https://github.com/pulumi/examples/tree/master/aws-ts-containers) repo. Pull down just this directory to follow along:
```bash
git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/pulumi/examples pulumi-examples
git -C pulumi-examples sparse-checkout set aws-ts-containers
cd pulumi-examples/aws-ts-containers
```
Companion to the tutorial [Provision containers on AWS](https://www.pulumi.com/docs/tutorials/aws/ecs-fargate/).
## Prerequisites
To run this example, make sure [Docker](https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/) is installed and running.
## Running the App
Note: some values in this example will be different from run to run. These values are indicated
with `***`.
1. Create a new stack:
```
$ pulumi stack init containers-dev
```
1. Configure Pulumi to use an AWS region that supports Fargate (you can view a list of supported regions in the [AWS documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/AWS_Fargate-Regions.html)):
```
$ pulumi config set aws:region us-west-2
```
1. Restore NPM modules via `npm install` or `yarn install`.
1. Preview and deploy the app via `pulumi up`. The preview will take a few minutes, as it builds a Docker container. A total of 19 resources are created.
```
$ pulumi up
```
1. View the endpoint URL, and run curl:
```bash
$ pulumi stack output
Current stack outputs (1)
OUTPUT VALUE
hostname http://***.elb.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
$ curl $(pulumi stack output hostname)
Hello, Pulumi!
Hello, S3!
Made with ❤️ with Pulumi
```
1. To view the runtime logs from the container, use the `pulumi logs` command. To get a log stream, use `pulumi logs --follow`.
```
$ pulumi logs --follow
Collecting logs for stack aws-ts-containers-dev since 2018-05-22T14:25:46.000-07:00.
2018-05-22T15:33:22.057-07:00[ pulumi-nginx] 172.31.13.248 - - [22/May/2018:22:33:22 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 189 "-" "curl/7.54.0" "-"
```
## Clean up
To clean up resources, run `pulumi destroy` and answer the confirmation question at the prompt.