Is there any plan to add document about installing on AWS EC2 Container Service?

The official Discourse team does hosting on bare metal linux servers, so we don’t have any experience with hosting Discourse on ECS. We would need someone in the community to figure this out and document it.

I think this would be needed to run on ECS: [image] Can Discourse ship frequent Docker images that do not need to be bootstrapped? dev There is this open issue (which I just closed) on Discourse Docker repo asking Discourse should behave like a standard docker image a …

@Frez created a guide on this: [image] Install Discourse on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Self-Hosting warning This installation method is not officially endorsed. Use at your own risk. The Discourse team only recommend installation using the official install guide This g…

Sorry if I’m mistaken but ain’t ECS and EC2 different things?

[image] Falco: I think this would be needed to run on ECS Not necessarily. You could fairly easily bootstrap a configured image locally, then push that to a private registry, and point ECS at it. [image] Falco: Sorry if I’m mistaken but ain’t ECS and EC2 different things? Yes, they ar…

[image] mpalmer: AWS’ insistence on confusing TLAs does nothing for general comprehension of their services. This is a good list: Amazon Web Services In Plain English It's named what? Figure out what Amazon Web Services should actually have been called. …

AWS offer a Elastic Beanstalk install option which creates a single instance docker app. The recommended method is via a Dockerrun.aws.json which pulls a docker image. You can even add env keypairs during the launch setup. Has anyone tried this yet? I’m no expert but this seems to get close to a…

Does someone has an example for the Multi-container configuration?

It would be really helpful if anyone could point out how to set up Discourse in AWS ECS. The main reason for being interested in ECS particularly is the ability it provides (through load balancer and autoscaling groups) to launch new instances automatically when needed. This means we can start with…

[image] kourou: It would be really helpful if anyone could point out how to set up Discourse in AWS ECS. ATM, Discourse doesn’t work on ECS. There was some discussion about it, but it would be a major change, and some drawbacks.

Since the title and body of your post are different I am unsure if you want ECS or EC2, but I found this helpful guide for setting up Discourse with EC2. Discourse setup using AWS | Andrew Stroup Following up from my previous post on PIF Knowledge Sharing and Transfer, where I talked..…

Document for installing on AWS ECS

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Falco (Falco) December 30, 2015, 5:16pm 3

I think this would be needed to run on ECS:

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Document for installing on AWS ECS

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