I am currently facing issues with deploying my Docker image on AWS. I managed to push my image into a Elastic Container Registry repository. I created an Elastic Container Service Cluster with a Task. Everything seems fine so far.
It does not start as I expect. I noticed that locally my Docker image must be executed with the "-it" argument (interactive shell).
Can you tell me how to enable such "-it" parameter?
Thanks!
you can set 'initProcessEnabled' to true parameter in container definition. This will allow us to access the running container
Following doc might help :
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/task_definition_parameters.html#container_definition_linuxparameters
Once this parameter is set to true you can access running container using below cli command.
aws ecs execute-command --cluster *cluster-name* \
--region *aws-region*
--task *task-id* \
--container *container-name* \
--interactive \
--command "/bin/sh"
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/ecs-exec.html
Related
I have fargate container which has the php prgram.
Then What I want to do is exec command in the container,
it is equivalent to docker command in local.
docker exec -it mycontainer /usr/bin/php mycommand
So, I want to do this from EventBridge (like cron)
Is it possible to do this??
In short:
It is possible to execute command inside container by aws-cli:
aws ecs execute-command \
--region $AWS_REGION \
--cluster ecs-exec-demo-cluster \
--task ef6260ed8aab49cf926667ab0c52c313 \
--container nginx \
--command "/bin/bash" \
--interactive
Most features that able to run via CLI able to run by using AWS SDK and supported program language.
Any supported language program may be added as AWS Lambda function
Any Lambda may be called by EventBridge
So answer is yes.
Details depends on how you plan to realize code that will be triggered by EventBridge.
Question:
How can I install aws cli, from WITHIN the ECS task ?
DESCRIPTION:
I'm using a docker container to run the logstash application (it is part of the elastic family).
The docker image name is "docker.elastic.co/logstash/logstash:7.10.2"
This logstash application needs to write to S3, thus it needs AWS CLI installed.
If aws is not installed, it crashes.
# STEP 1 #
To avoid crashing, when I used this application only as a docker, I ran it in a way that I caused the 'logstash start' to be delayed, after docker container was started.
I did this by adding "sleep" command to an external docker-entrypoint file, before it starts the logstash.
This is how it looks in the docker-entrypoint file:
sleep 120
if [[ -z $1 ]] || [[ ${1:0:1} == '-' ]] ; then
exec logstash "$#"
else
exec "$#"
fi
# EOF
# STEP 2 #
run the docker with "--entrypoint" flag so it will use my entrypoint file
docker run \
-d \
--name my_logstash \
-v /home/centos/DevOps/psifas_logstash_docker-entrypoint:/usr/local/bin/psifas_logstash_docker-entrypoint \
-v /home/centos/DevOps/logstash.conf:/usr/share/logstash/pipeline/logstash.conf \
-v /home/centos/DevOps/logstash.yml:/usr/share/logstash/config/logstash.yml \
--entrypoint /usr/local/bin/psifas_logstash_docker-entrypoint \
docker.elastic.co/logstash/logstash:7.10.2
# STEP 3 #
install aws cli and configure aws cli from the server hosting the docker:
docker exec -it -u root <DOCKER_CONTAINER_ID> yum install awscli -y
docker exec -it <DOCKER_CONTAINER_ID> aws configure set aws_access_key_id <MY_aws_access_key_id>
docker exec -it <DOCKER_CONTAINER_ID> aws configure set aws_secret_access_key <MY_aws_secret_access_key>
docker exec -it <DOCKER_CONTAINER_ID> aws configure set region <MY_region>
This worked for me,
Now I want to "translate" this flow into an AWS ECS task.
in ECS I will use parameters instead of running the above 3 "aws configure" commands.
MY QUESTION
How can I do my 3rd step, installing aws cli, from WITHIN the ECS task ? (meaning not to run it on the EC2 server hosting the ECS cluster)
When I was working on the docker I also thought of these options to use the aws cli:
find an official elastic docker image containing both logstash and aws cli. <-- I did not find one.
create such an image by myself and use. <-- I prefer not , because I want to avoid the maintenance of creating new custom images when needed (e.g when new version of logstash image is available).
Eventually I choose the 3 steps above, but I'm open to suggestion.
Also, My tests showed that running 2 containers within the same ECS task:
logstah
awscli
and then the logstash container will use the aws cli container
(image "amazon/aws-cli") is not working.
THANKS A LOT IN ADVANCE :-)
Your option #2, create the image yourself, is really the best way to do this. Anything else is going to be a "hack". Also, you shouldn't be running aws configure for an image running in ECS, you should be assigning a IAM role to the task, and the AWS CLI will pick that up and use it.
Mark B, your answer helped me to solve this. Thanks!
writing here the solution in case it will help somebody else.
There is no need to install AWS CLI, in the logstash docker container running inside the ECS task.
Inside the logstash container (from image "docker.elastic.co/logstash/logstash:7.10.2") there is AWS SDK to connect to the S3.
The only thing required is to allow the ECS Task execution role, access to S3.
(I attached AmazonS3FullAccess policy)
I am trying to restart an AWS service (basically stop and start all tasks within the service) without making any changes to the task definition.
The reason for this is because the image has the latest tag attached with every build.
I have tried stopping all tasks and having the services recreate them but this means that there is some temporarily unavailable error when the services are restarting in my instances (2).
What is the best way to handle this? Say, A blue-green deployment strategy so that there is no downtime?
This is what I have currently. It'shortcomings is that my app will be down for a couple of seconds as the service's tasks are being rebuilt after deleting them.
configure_aws_cli(){
aws --version
aws configure set default.region us-east-1
aws configure set default.output json
}
start_tasks() {
start_task=$(aws ecs start-task --cluster $CLUSTER --task-definition $DEFINITION --container-instances $EC2_INSTANCE --group $SERVICE_GROUP --started-by $SERVICE_ID)
echo "$start_task"
}
stop_running_tasks() {
tasks=$(aws ecs list-tasks --cluster $CLUSTER --service $SERVICE | $JQ ".taskArns | . []");
tasks=( $tasks )
for task in "${tasks[#]}"
do
[[ ! -z "$task" ]] && stop_task=$(aws ecs stop-task --cluster $CLUSTER --task "$task")
done
}
push_ecr_image(){
echo "Push built image to ECR"
eval $(aws ecr get-login --region us-east-1)
docker push $AWS_ACCOUNT_ID.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/repository:$TAG
}
configure_aws_cli
push_ecr_image
stop_running_tasks
start_tasks
Use update-service and the --force-new-deployment flag:
aws ecs update-service --force-new-deployment --service my-service --cluster cluster-name
Hold on a sec.
If I understood you usecase correctly, this is addressed in the official docs:
If your updated Docker image uses the same tag as what is in the existing task definition for your service (for example, my_image:latest), you do not need to create a new revision of your task definition. You can update the service using the procedure below, keep the current settings for your service, and select Force new deployment....
To avoid downtime, you should manipulate 2 parameters: minimum healthy percent and maximum percent:
For example, if your service has a desired number of four tasks and a maximum percent value of 200%, the scheduler may start four new tasks before stopping the four older tasks (provided that the cluster resources required to do this are available). The default value for maximum percent is 200%.
This basically mean, that regardless of whether your task definition changed and to what extent, there can be an "overlap" between the old and the new ones, and this is the way to achieve resilience and reliability.
UPDATE:
Amazon has just introduced External Deployment Controllers for ECS(both EC2 and Fargate). It includes a new level of abstraction called TaskSet. I haven't tried it myself yet, but such fine grain control over service and task management(both APIs are supported) can potentially solve the problem akin this one.
After you push your new image to your Docker repository, you can create a new revision of your task definition (it can be identical to the existing task definition) and update your service to use the new task definition revision. This will trigger a service deployment, and your service will pull the new image from your repository.
This way your task definition stays the same (although updating the service to a new task definition revision is required to trigger the image pull), and still uses the "latest" tag of your image, but you can take advantage of the ECS service deployment functionality to avoid downtime.
The fact that I have to create a new revision of my task definition every time even when there is no change in the task definition itself is not right.
There are a bunch of crude bash implementations on this which means that AWS should have the ECS service scheduler listen for changes/updates in the image, especially for an automated build process.
My crude work-around to this was have two identical task definitions and switch between them for every build. That way I don't have redundant revisions.
Here is the specific script snippet that does that.
update_service() {
echo "change task definition and update service"
taskDefinition=$(aws ecs describe-services --cluster $CLUSTER --services $SERVICE | $JQ ".services | . [].taskDefinition")
if [ "$taskDefinition" = "$TASK_DEF_1" ]; then
newDefinition="$TASK_DEF_2"
else
newDefinition="$TASK_DEF_1"
fi
rollUpdate=$(aws ecs update-service --cluster $CLUSTER --service $SERVICE --task-definition $newDefinition)
}
Did you have this question solved? Perhaps this will work for you.
With a new release image pushed to ECR with a version tag, i.e. v1.05, and the latest tag, the image locator in my task definition needed to be explicitly updated to have this version tag postfixed like :v1.05.
With :latest, this new image did not get pulled by the new container after aws ecs update-service --force-new-deployment --service my-service.
I was doing tagging and pushing like this:
docker tag ${imageId} ${ecrRepoUri}:v1.05
docker tag ${imageId} ${ecrRepoUri}:latest
docker push ${ecrRepoUri}
...where as this is the proper way of pushing multiple tags:
docker tag ${imageId} ${ecrRepoUri}
docker push ${ecrRepoUri}:v1.05
docker push ${ecrRepoUri}:latest
This was briefly mentioned in the official docs without a proper example.
Works great https://github.com/fdfk/ecsServiceRestart
python ecsServiceRestart.py restart --services="app app2" --cluster=test
The quick and dirty way:
login to EC2 instance running the task
find your container with docker container list
use docker restart [container]
The use case is like - developer makes some code changes and the below things happen automatically -
build runs, application artifact created, docker image generated with the artifact, image pushed to Docker registry, AWS ECS tasks and ECS services updated.
I want to know what are the ways to achieve the above automation of update of AWS ECS services. Till now I have implemented AWS ECS update from Jenkins build using -
1>run post build AWS CLi scripts from Jenkins to update ECS
2>post build action or pipeline step to invoke AWS Lambda function. I have created one Lambda function in Java to implement that.
Please let me the other ways we can achieve the above. Thanks.
I'm continuously deploying Docker containers from CircleCI to AWS ECS.
The outline of the deployment flow is as follows:
Build and tag a new Docker image
Login to AWS ECR and push the image
Update task definitions and services of ECS with ecs-deploy
ecs-deploy is a useful script that updates Docker images in ECS.
https://github.com/silinternational/ecs-deploy
You could use a shell script that calls aws cli commands to create cloudformation stacks or directly call the create commands in the aws cli for the ECR repository, Task Definition, Events rule and target(for scheduling).
then you just call this script on your terminal using this command: ./setup.sh and it should execute all your commands at once.
aws ecr create-repository \
--repository-name tasks-${TASK_NAME}-${TASK_ENV} \
;
or if you want to set up your resources via cloudformation templates, you can launch them using this command as long as the template exists at file://name.yml:
aws cloudformation create-stack \
--stack-name stack-name \
--capabilities CAPABILITY_IAM \
--template-body file://name.yml \
--parameters
ParameterKey=ParamName,ParameterValue=${PARAM_NAME} \
;
Take a look at Codefresh - https://docs.codefresh.io/docs/amazon-ecs
You can build your pipeline
Build Step
Push to Registry
Deply to ECS
That easy
While there are a ton of CI/CD tools out there, since I am early in my rollout, I decided to write a small script instead of having CI/CD pipelines do it.
Here is a one-click deploy script I wrote using the ecs-deploy script as a dependency to achieve a rolling deploy of a docker image to ECS.
You can run this locally from your dev or build/deployment box or use Jenkins or some local build tool.
#!/bin/bash
# automatically login to AWS
eval $(aws ecr get-login)
# build local docker image and push repo to AWS
docker build -t <yourlocaldockerimagetag> .
docker tag <yourlocaldockerimagetag>:latest <yourECSRepoURL>:latest
docker -D -l debug push <yourECSRepoURL>:latest
# deploy to ECS
ecs-deploy/ecs-deploy -m 50 -k <access-key> -s <secret-key> -r <aws-region> -c <cluster-name> -n <service-name> -i <yourECSRepoURL>:latest
Parameters:
cluster-name: Your cluster name in ECS
service-name: Your service name that you had created in ECS
yourECSRepoURL: ECS Repository URL
yourlocaldockerimagetag: Any local image tag name
access-key: your AWS access key for deployments
secret-key: your AWS secret key
Make sure you install ecs-deploy before this script.
The -m 50 tells it that it can deploy even if the number of nodes drops to 50%. Ideally you would have an extra node to do deployments, but if you can't afford that setting this would ensure that deployments continue to happen.
If you are also using an ELB (load balancer), then the default deregistration delay for target groups is 5 minutes which is a bit excessive. The deregistration delay is the time to wait for existing requests to complete BEFORE ECS sends a SIGTERM or SIGINT to your docker container. You should lower this by going to the Target Groups in EC2 dashboard and click the Edit Attributes to edit it. Otherwise your deployments may take forever.
I think nobody has mentioned CodePipeline from AWS, it really integrates easilly with many AWS Services including ECS and CodeCommit:
Push commit to CodeCommit Repo, triggering the pipeline execution.
(Optional) Configure a Manual Approval step that needs you to take an action before Build.
Run a CodeBuild Project that builds your Dockerfile and push the image to an ECR Repo.
Run a "Deploy" step that deploys to a specific ECS Service. It updates the services with a new Task Definition that points to the new ECR Image.
I have used this flow with BitBucket also, just configure a BitBucket pipeline that pushes all new code to a CodeCommit Repo as a previous step.
Exactly as #minamiyojo and #astav answers, we ended up glueing ecs-deploy with a template engine to power up our CD pipeline with some reusable component, we just open-sourced as well:
https://github.com/GuccioGucci/yoke
Please refer to Motivation section in README, hope this would help your scenario too.
I am setting up a CI/CD pipeline for my micro-services. Currently I use TravisCI to pull the code from Github upon check-in, build the docker image and push it to DockerHub. I tried using docker cloud(previously knows as Tutum), which provides automatic deployment feature to AWS EC2 instance but the deployment sometimes recreates the container and the service endpoint URL changes, which is not desirable.
I am exploring amazon's ECS and its tasks , but I can not find any reference for how to setup continuos deployment to ECS when a new image is pushed to docker hub.
Anybody has any experience doing the setup ?
with ECS you would basically have CI detect a change to docker hub and update your task definition/service.
For this I use the wonderful ecs-deploy script from here:
https://github.com/silinternational/ecs-deploy
After my container has been built and deployed to dockerhub it's simply a matter of:
ecs-deploy -k $AWS_KEY -s $AWS_SECRET -r $AWS_REGION -c $CLUSTER_NAME -n $SERVICE_NAME -i $DOCKER_IMAGE_NAME
and that does it.