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Amazon Fargate Quick Start Guide

By : Deepak Vohra
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Amazon Fargate Quick Start Guide

By: Deepak Vohra

Overview of this book

Amazon Fargate is new launch type for the Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). ECS is an AWS service for Docker container orchestration. Docker is the de facto containerization framework and has revolutionized packaging and deployment of software. The introduction of Fargate has made the ECS platform serverless. The book takes you through how Amazon Fargate runs ECS services composed of tasks and Docker containers and exposes the containers to the user. Fargate has simplified the ECS platform. We will learn how Fargate creates an Elastic Network Interface (ENI) for each task and how auto scaling can be enabled for ECS tasks. You will also learn about using an IAM policy to download Docker images and send logs to CloudWatch. Finally, by the end of this book, you will have learned about how to use ECS CLI to create an ECS cluster and deploy tasks with Docker Compose.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Exploring Task logs


Task log events are generally used for debugging a task or a service, and to find out whether a task started without any errors. The log events generated by a task are displayed by selecting the Logs tab in the task details, shown in the following screenshot. Each log entry includes a Timestamp and a log Message. An example of debugging a task is indicated by a MySQL init process failed message:

A task could fail for several reasons, and some of the common reasons are:

  • Task is out of memory 
  • Mandatory environment variables have not been set
  • Insufficient CPU allocated to the container or task

An example log entry in which a MySQL database is indicated to be running and accepting connections is mysqld: ready for connections, as shown in the following screenshot: