Questions tagged [amazon-ecs]
For questions about Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), a highly scalable, high-performance container orchestration service that supports Docker containers
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Moving a Laravel Scheduler to Kubernetes with Non-idempotent Cron Jobs
We're in the process of transitioning a Laravel application to Kubernetes using EKS and k9s. For the most part, the application seems to be a good fit. However, we've run into a challenge related to ...
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Number EC2 instances required for tasks
Let's say I want to place my tasks on EC2 instances of type m6i.large, which has 2 vCPU and 8GB of memory.
I have 10 ECS tasks, each requiring 512 mCPU and 512MB of memory. How many EC2 instances do I ...
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How to configure Gitlab/Docker/AWS?
I have a Gitlab project, hosted in my company's Gitlab account. I have written an .gitlab-ci.yaml file which gather the image image: python:3.10.9-bullseye, install the python dependencies and run the ...
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Configure hostname for syslog driver in AWS ECS
Running ECS with an EC2 Container Instance
I am using the syslog driver to log to Papertrail
The papertrail logs are showing a random IP address as the host; I'd prefer that to be something meaningful....
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Why can't I get past the credentials page when running Grafana in ECS?
I have been playing for a while with Grafana, installed in Docker on my Mac. That's been working great. My company has a set of Terraform code that lets one easily host an arbitrary Docker image/...
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I cannot exec into a docker container running in ECS
I'm attempting to login to a container (from ECR) deployed into an AWS ECS cluster. For what it's worth I'm using the docker compose/ecs integration to deploy this cluster. My docker compose file is ...
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is it possible to read dns ip address from resolv.conf with in aws ecs container and use at the server startup?
app architecture:
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The normal request flow happens when an api request triggered from the UI as shown in the above diagram(abstracted few components to talk about specific point) as shown in the ...
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How to migrate VPC in AWS?
We are trying to move towards canary deployments.
We want to be able to spin up an entirely new deployment and be able to access the DB, but the DB is privately connected to the existing VPC for ...
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Docker Compose on AWS
I have no experience with AWS and I would like to know what the best approach is when it comes to embedding an environment built using Docker Compose (a simple application with two services, API and ...
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Terraform plan does not update AWS Task Definition with last active revision value
I would like your help on a situation that I'm facing with terrafom. My company recently launched a new website whose wordpress is hosted in an AWS ECS container. I had to make some adjustments to the ...
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Issue in running docker container on ecs
I am trying to run container on ecs but there is one specific image which is not running and give me error. I can see in docker container ec2 that image is pulled and it tried to run but it gave ...
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Making blue green deployment work for dependent ECS services
I have two ECS services. UI(http://<LB>/SS_UI/) and API(http://<LB>/webservice/).
UI calls API and it's config file will have references to the API e.g.
public static springURL = "...
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AWS ECS Green/Blue with CodePipeline: The ELB could not be updated due to the following error: Primary taskset target group must be behind listener
I've been trying for hours to get a basic CodePipeline up and running with ECS Green/Blue. We're creating a prototype, so everything is in a single repo for now, and the Dockerfile, taskdef.json, ...
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Proper technologies to create a horizontably scalable index search
I am sorry for the newbye question. Im trying to figure out the best architecture / set of technologies to implement some very specific system:
I have several databases indexes (used for searching ...
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Which container will be targeted when replicas larger than 1
Below is a simplified version of my docker-compose.yml file.
I can understand or find any resources to tell me which container of the 5 django replicas the nginx container will target if i reference ...
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Is AWS Fargate suitable for web applications?
I'm making a web-app, I've tried both ECS and EKS at AWS. It's been very comfortable to use Fargate instances instead of EC2. But I'm not sure I understand how to use them since when I count at it, it'...
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Docker compose to ECS, two services in one task
I'm using this method to deploy my docker-compose project to AWS ECS.
A simplified version of my docker-compose.yml looks like this:
version: '3'
services:
web:
image: .dkr.ecr.eu-west-3....
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AWS ECS vs EKS for hybrid cloud strategy
What can EKS deployment do that ECS deployment can't do? is there any specific circumstances that you have to deploy your application on EKS but not ECS.
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AWS ELB Application Load balancer, SSL not working
I've setup an "Application Load balancer" in AWS. It has two Listeners, one on HTTP (port 80) and one on HTTPS (port 443).
It also has one target group that with only one FARGATE instance ...
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AWS ECS Update with new docker image
I've setup a cluster on AWS ECS, it's hosting nginx and a webapp.
I've used these commands to create my resources
aws ecr create-repository --repository-name <repo-name>
ecs-cli configure --...
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Container Image Promotion across environments in ECR/ECS
We have started doing some initial work on deploying containers on ECS Fargate service.
However we are not yet completely figured out how to manage our image promotion across different environments.
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A service by AWS that routes traffic based on simple logic
Background
we currently use google distance matrix (GDM) apis a lot to help in core business functions. As the cost of GDM went up, we worked on switching on cheaper alternatives. We decided to use ...
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How does topography affect composite SLA?
I looked at How do you calculate the compound Service Level Agreement (SLA) for cloud services? and am still not sure how topography affects SLA. Suppose a request...
passes through one instance of ...
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AWS ECS Fargate, auto scaling and load balancer
For a ECS service with launch type "fargate", it is possible to configure a load balancer and auto scaling. I don`t understand, how those two types of scaling work in this case, and how they ...
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Why do I need a Nat Gateway for ECS containers using AWSVPC?
So here is a scenario:
I have a route table that routes all traffic to the internet gateway, and I have a subnet associated with that route table, which makes it a public subnet. Now I create another ...
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Accessing a AWS docker instance via localhost only?
Suppose I have two apps launched via the AWS ECS cluster (using Docker containers).
I want to expose one app to the world via a public IP (and I do it via the AWS load balancer) but the other one I ...
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Get tagging to work on AWS CLI
I am trying to tag commit hash and app version onto the ECS service to make it easier for developers to identify the service with the code.
But I get this error
+ aws ecs tag-resource --resource-...
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How to set Deployment Type using ECS First Run Wizard
The AWS ECS First Run Wizard provides no option for choosing the 'Deployment type' of the ECS Service:
Whereas the ECS Service creation screen does:
Why does the First Run Wizard not allow for ...
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In what way does a new ECS Fargate service not satisfy the task definition's required capabilities?
When creating a new AWS ECS service using a Fargate task, in the AWS Console wizard, it fails with the following error:
Failed creation of Service
Service creation failed: The specified platform does ...
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Startup of ECS Fargate task fails with ResourceInitializationError mount.nfs4 Connection timed out
When starting up an Amazon ECS task with launch type FARGATE it fails with the following reason:
ResourceInitializationError: failed to invoke EFS utils commands to set up EFS volumes: command failed ...
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I want to scale up/down as fast as AWS Lambda but also be able to allocate the vCPU (minimum 8) per task, any advice?
Goal
So I'm looking for an AWS product or combination of products to accomplish the following:
Ability to do CPU heavy (non-parallel) calculations (min 8 vCPU's per node)
Minimum timeout limit of ...
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AWS organizations and Billing
I was using an AWS account with my credit card info and my personal account. Since I'm learning my way around AWS services I am using free tier as much as I can but I still have some small charges ...
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RDS DB migrations using ECS and Fargate
I run my app with Docker and ECS. How can I handle database migrations? With fargate there doesn’t seem to be a way to SSH into the container to run any commands so I can’t run my RDS MySQL migrations ...
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Configure VPC for ECR access
I am creating my infrastructure with Ansible. I create a VPC and an ECS cluster where I use Fargate to run my docker containers.
When the tasks are started I am prompted that the task was not able to ...
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What's the benefit of using Nginx to serve a Flask API on AWS?
I want to deploy a Flask API on AWS using Docker. A common way seems to be using a combination of Nginx + app server (e.g Gunicorn) + Flask app.
The reason to use app server seems obvious to me. ...
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AWS Production Configuration ASP.NET Core & Docker
So we have an asp.net core application we are hoping to start using with docker and host this all on aws.
We have multiple clients that we set up this project for, each with their own configuration ...
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Terraform aws_ecr_repository resource always attempts to destroy
I have been banging my head against this seemingly simple issue for awhile now. I have some Terraform code which sets up an ECR repository, policy and lifecycle policy.
provider "aws" {
region = "...
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Update ECS task definition with new image from ECR
I have an ECS cluster/service/task definition using an image from my ECR repository.
Let's say I update the image with a new version, will ECS pick the changes automatically?
Do I need to modify the ...
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Why does Docker fail to start on AWS ECS instances. ECS stateful instance fails initialization. ECS stateful instance doesn't join the ECS cluster
The ECS instance fails to join the ECS cluster because it relies on docker to launch its ecs agent. If in this case docker fails to start then the whole process halts.
Docker fails to start in AWS ...
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Docker image labels in fargate are not applied to containers [closed]
I'm running code in docker containers through AWS ECS on the fargate engine. The problem that I'm running into is that my docker image labels are not being applied to the docker container as I would ...
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How to use ecs service dicovery
I'm trying to use amazon service discovery to register a Redis server in order to be reachable by other ECS services in the same cluster.
I'm using EC2 to deploy my services not Fargate, so service ...
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Using volumes on AWS fargate
I'm new to fargate and even dockers. But I have used dockers for a couple of months. Only now, I am using fargate.
I create a particular docker instance as follows:
docker run -v localHostFolder/...
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How to override the user for ECS task via CLI? [closed]
I've got a Task Definition with parameters which executes a script using a regular user.
I'd like to test the script without changing the Task Definition by overriding the default user which script ...
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Is containerized deployment of jenkins on ECS better than running jenkins inside EC2 instance to secure pipeline information?
I am new to AWS, docker and jenkins. I want to run a jenkins build pipeline and I have tried using following two ways on AWS:
Running jenkins inside the EC2 instance following the steps at this AWS ...
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How can you pass private environment variables to FARGATE tasks specified from a Docker Compose config
I am using an existing docker-compose.yml to migrate an app to ECS. The config references several $ENV vars which I used to pass in simply as environment variables when running docker-compose up. One ...
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How do you instruct AWS FARGATE to provision a t2.small via ECS CLI instead of the default micro?
I am trialling AWS ECS for the first time. I've run through the tutorials and now I'm trying to deploy an existing Docker Compose suite which I've been using on Digital Ocean for some time.
I have ...
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ECS auto deploy with ECR
I'm using github, jenkins, aws ECR, aws ECS.
I want to deploy automatically when github have new commit. When github have new commit, github sends a event webhook to jenkins, jenkins builds the ...
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ECS ELB Health Check Fails [closed]
The health check on our ECS cluster is failing on a service that is using an ELB Network Load Balancer on TCP port (gRPC running in docker alpine). The service is using dynamic port mapping for ...
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Best way to launch 100 identical Docker machines on AWS?
I need to do some large scale testing on a system. The system consists of 2 main parts: Manager and Nodes. There will be only one manager server, but 100 nodes. Both the manager and nodes are Docker ...
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Can I restart a container within an ECS task group without restarting the entire task? [closed]
I know this isn't possible through the AWS portal, but we have a scenario where we would like to restart a container that may have died, which isn't essential.
The scenario is along the lines of ...
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