AWS Fargate

wikipedia:AWS Fargate (Nov 2017) 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 https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/AWS_Fargate.html#fargate-tasks-size

• aws ecs create-service --launch-type FARGATE
• 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.

Related terms

• launch_type
• AWS ECS: AWS::ECS::Service
• AWS EKS
• Launch type: AWS Fargate (Cloudformation: LaunchType": "FARGATE")
• Terraform resource: aws_ecs_service
• 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

News

• 04/2022 https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/04/aws-fargate-delivers-scaling-applications/

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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