AWS Fargate

wikipedia:AWS Fargate (Nov 2017, Trends) service for deploying and managing containers without having to manage any of the underlying infrastructure.

• Pricing: https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/pricing/
• Size: up to 16 vCPU
• AWS Fargate versions: v1.4 https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/aws-fargate-platform-versions-primer/

Commands

ECS:

• aws ecs create-service --launch-type FARGATE
• Terraform resource: aws_ecs_service: launch_type
• AWS ECS: AWS::ECS::Service

EKS:

• eksctl create fargateprofile
• eksctl get fargateprofile

Terraform:

• Terraform resource: aws_eks_fargate_profile

When creating a service that runs tasks on Fargate, when the service scheduler launches new tasks or stops running tasks, it attempts to maintain balance across Availability Zones. There is no need to specify task placement strategies or restraints.

News

• Oct 2022 Reducing AWS Fargate Startup Times with zstd Compressed Container Images https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/reducing-aws-fargate-startup-times-with-zstd-compressed-container-images/
• Apr 2022 faster scaling of applications: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/04/aws-fargate-delivers-scaling-applications/ and https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/under-the-hood-amazon-elastic-container-service-and-aws-fargate-increase-task-launch-rates/
• Mar 2021 Using Amazon ECS Exec to access your containers on AWS Fargate and Amazon EC2: aws ecs execute-command
• Apr 2020 AWS Fargate launches platform version 1.4.0
• Dec 2019 AWS Fargate Spot
• Dec 2019 Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate Now Generally Available

Activities

• Read https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/aws-fargate?tab=Votes
• Read https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/happy-5th-birthday-aws-fargate/
• Read https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/category/compute/aws-fargate/
• Deploying IPFS Cluster using AWS Fargate and Amazon EFS One Zone

Related terms

• AWS EKS
• Launch type: AWS Fargate (Cloudformation: LaunchType": "FARGATE")
• requiresCompatibilities
• ulimits
• vCPU: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/task-cpu-memory-error.html
• You can run the Amazon EBS CSI controller on Fargate, but you can't mount volumes to Fargate pods
• AWS Batch
• cpu =
• aws ecs execute-command

See also

• AWS Fargate, AWS Fargate Spot, aws ecs, aws eks, launch_type, versions, AWS Fargate profile
• Amazon ECS, Service, Tasks (Task overview), capacity providers, Cluster Auto Scaling (CAS), aws ecs, ecs-cli, ~/.ecs/config, AWS Copilot, AWS Fargate, AWS CloudWatch Container Insights, /etc/ecs/ecs.config, Security group (SG), container agent, task definition, Amazon ECS events, best practices, Amazon ECS Exec Checker, Amazon ECS Agent, Service Connect, AWSServiceRoleForECS, Terraform ECS
• Container orchestration: Kubernetes, Nomad, Docker Swarm, OpenShift, Mesos, Marathon, AWS Fargate

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