ECS and Fargate Cheat Sheet

• Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a fully-managed container orchestration service. Highly secure, reliable and scalable way to run containers
• Components of EC2
  • Cluster Multiple EC2 instances which will house the docker containers.
  • Task Definition A JSON file that defines the configuration of (upto 10) containers you want to run
  • Task Launches containers defined in the Task Definition. Tasks do not remain running once workload is complete
  • Service Ensures tasks remain running (e.g. web app)
  • Container Agent Binary on each EC2 instance which monitors, starts and stops tasks

Elastic Container Registry (ECR) A fully-manged Docker container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage and deploy Docker container images.

• Fargate is Serverless containers. Don’t worry about servers. Run containers, and pay based on duration and consumption
  • Fargate has Cold Starts, if this is an issue use ECS
  • Duration As long as you want
  • Memory Upto 30GB
  • Pricing Pay at least 1 minute and every additional second

[[ECS_&_Fargate_Cheatsheet]]