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?

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

Has anyone experience with AWS EC2 Container Service?

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rootsh3ll (Harry) November 3, 2017, 10:00pm 11

as sam confirms above, it should work on ecs.

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Has anyone experience with AWS EC2 Container Service?

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