Immediately we’re asserting that Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) helps an integration with Amazon Elastic Block Retailer (Amazon EBS), making it simpler to run a wider vary of information processing workloads. You’ll be able to provision Amazon EBS storage on your ECS duties operating on AWS Fargate and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) with no need to handle storage or compute.

Many organizations select to deploy their purposes as containerized packages, and with the introduction of Amazon ECS integration with Amazon EBS, organizations can now run extra varieties of workloads than earlier than.

You’ll be able to run information workloads requiring storage that helps excessive transaction volumes and throughput, comparable to extract, rework, and cargo (ETL) jobs for large information, which have to fetch current information, carry out processing, and retailer this processed information for downstream use. As a result of the storage lifecycle is absolutely managed by Amazon ECS, you don’t have to construct any further scaffolding to handle infrastructure updates, and in consequence, your information processing workloads are actually extra resilient whereas concurrently requiring much less effort to handle.

Now you’ll be able to select from a wide range of storage choices on your containerized purposes operating on Amazon ECS:

• Your Fargate duties get 20 GiB of ephemeral storage by default. For purposes that want further cupboard space to obtain giant container photos or for scratch work, you’ll be able to configure as much as 200 GiB of ephemeral storage on your Fargate duties.
• For purposes that span many duties that want concurrent entry to a shared dataset, you’ll be able to configure Amazon ECS to mount the Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system to your ECS duties operating on each EC2 and Fargate. Frequent examples of such workloads embody net purposes comparable to content material administration methods, inside DevOps instruments, and machine studying (ML) frameworks. Amazon EFS is designed to be obtainable throughout a Area and might be concurrently hooked up to many duties.
• For purposes that want high-performance, low-cost storage that doesn’t have to be shared throughout duties, you’ll be able to configure Amazon ECS to provision and connect Amazon EBS storage to your duties operating on each Amazon EC2 and Fargate. Amazon EBS is designed to supply block storage with low latency and excessive efficiency inside an Availability Zone.

To be taught extra, see Utilizing information volumes in Amazon ECS duties and persistent storage greatest practices within the AWS documentation.

Getting began with EBS quantity integration to your ECS duties
You’ll be able to configure the amount mount level on your container within the activity definition and cross Amazon EBS storage necessities on your Amazon ECS activity at runtime. For many use instances, you may get began by merely offering the scale of the amount wanted for the duty. Optionally, you’ll be able to configure all EBS quantity attributes and the file system you need the amount formatted with.

1. Create a activity definition
Go to the Amazon ECS console, navigate to Activity definitions, and select Create new activity definition.

Within the Storage part, select Configure at deployment to set EBS quantity as a brand new configuration sort. You’ll be able to provision and connect one quantity per activity for Linux file methods.

While you select Configure at activity definition creation, you’ll be able to configure current storage choices comparable to bind mounts, Docker volumes, EFS volumes, Amazon FSx for Home windows File Server volumes, or Fargate ephemeral storage.

Now you’ll be able to choose a container within the activity definition, the supply EBS quantity, and supply a mount path the place the amount can be mounted within the activity.

You too can use $aws ecs register-task-definition --cli-input-json file://instance.json command line to register a activity definition so as to add an EBS quantity. The next snippet is a pattern, and activity definitions are saved in JSON format.

{
    "household": "nginx"
    ...
    "containerDefinitions": [
        {
            ...
            "mountPoints": [
                "containerPath": "/foo",
                "sourceVolume": "new-ebs-volume"
            ],
            "title": "nginx",
            "picture": "nginx"
        }
    ],
    "volumes": [
       {
           "name": "/foo",
           "configuredAtRuntime": true
       }
    ]
}

2. Deploy and run your activity with EBS quantity
Now you’ll be able to run a activity by choosing your activity in your ECS cluster. Go to your ECS cluster and select Run new activity. Word that you may choose the compute choices, the launch sort, and your activity definition.

Word: Whereas this instance goes by way of deploying a standalone activity with an hooked up EBS quantity, you may also configure a brand new or current ECS service to make use of EBS volumes with the specified configuration.

You may have a brand new Quantity part the place you’ll be able to configure the extra storage. The quantity title, sort, and mount factors are people who you outlined in your activity definition. Select your EBS quantity sorts, sizes (GiB), IOPs, and the specified throughput.

You can not connect an current EBS quantity to an ECS activity. However if you wish to create a quantity from an current snapshot, you’ve the choice to decide on your snapshot ID. If you wish to create a brand new quantity, then you’ll be able to go away this area empty. You’ll be able to select the file system sort, both ext3 or ext4 file methods on Linux.

By default, when a activity is terminated, Amazon ECS deletes the hooked up quantity. If you happen to want the information within the EBS quantity to be retained after the duty exits, examine Delete on termination. Additionally, it is advisable create an AWS Identification and Entry Administration (IAM) function for quantity administration that comprises the related permissions to permit Amazon ECS to make API calls in your behalf. For extra data on this coverage, see infrastructure function within the AWS documentation.

You too can configure encryption in your EBS volumes utilizing both Amazon managed keys and buyer managed keys. To be taught extra concerning the choices, see our Amazon EBS encryption within the AWS documentation.

After configuring all activity settings, select Create to begin your activity.

3. Deploy and run your activity with EBS quantity
As soon as your activity has began, you’ll be able to see the amount data on the duty definition particulars web page. Select a activity and choose the Volumes tab to seek out your created EBS quantity particulars.

Your crew can arrange the event and operations of EBS volumes extra effectively. For instance, utility builders can configure the trail the place your utility expects storage to be obtainable within the activity definition, and DevOps engineers can configure the precise EBS quantity attributes at runtime when the appliance is deployed.

This permits DevOps engineers to deploy the identical activity definition to completely different environments with differing EBS quantity configurations, for instance, gp3 volumes within the improvement environments and io2 volumes in manufacturing.

Now obtainable
Amazon ECS integration with Amazon EBS is on the market in 9 AWS Areas: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Eire), and Europe (Stockholm). You solely pay for what you utilize, together with EBS volumes and snapshots. To be taught extra, see the Amazon EBS pricing web page and Amazon EBS volumes in ECS within the AWS documentation.

Give it a attempt now and ship suggestions to our public roadmap, AWS re:Put up for Amazon ECS, or by way of your typical AWS Assist contacts.

— Channy

P.S. Particular because of Maish Saidel-Keesing, a senior enterprise developer advocate at AWS for his contribution in scripting this weblog publish.