Is anyone running Discourse on AWS’s new EC2 Container Service? Is it recommendable? Are there any known issues with managing them? Thanks And a little bit longer… ;oP [AWS Summit San Franisco 2015: Manage Docker-Enabled Apps in EC2 with Amazon ECS]

It doesn’t work, because of a couple reasons: (principally) the bootstrapping process, where all your configuration is applied & the database seeded, involves running code in the container, stopping the container, then starting it again with a different pid1 backups are broken because the pg_dump …

Any update/improvement on this, two years later? Or will this never ever work at all with EC2 Container Services?

not sure about container service but I am running discourse under docker along with a side on wordpress(non-dockerised) and not facing issues managing them. as it is being reverse-proxied by nginx to the discourse container. so everything is organised.

A container service manages docker and the base OS for you AFAIK. You don’t have root access. You just throw a container in and the service runs it. Discourse requires root access to config.

but on EC2 you do have root access. As OP said discourse doesn’t work on ECS. I wonder why? even when you have root access. AFAIK, ECS is simply EC2 running docker for you. so, I wonder why it cannot run discourse on ECS. whilst I am running discourse on EC2. PS: don’t mind If I am wrong. I don’…

ECS takes away the OS and decker management from you. For example they manage all the upgrades and patches. You dont have to do those. So it is not a complete VM. It is a managed service. You only provide a container.

This way it’s impossible to run discourse on ECS. since discourse needs to be root

[image] rootsh3ll: since discourse needs to be root Can you explain why? Is there any post at meta that’s linked on this topic?

as sam confirms above, it should work on ecs.

Has anyone experience with AWS EC2 Container Service?

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sam (Sam Saffron) Novembre 3, 2017, 9:56 10

It will work fine on Ecs , bootstrap an image push to registry and then specify env and volumes

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Has anyone experience with AWS EC2 Container Service?

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