AWS ECS
Hi, is it possible to run the Coder application, provisioners and workspaces on AWS ECS. The documents appear to be relatively focused on ec2 and eks (kubenetes).
We are evaluating at using coder on AWS ECS to reduce maintenance requirements.
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Help needed
Product
Coder (v2)
Platform
Linux
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It should be possible, with the Terraform AWS provider.
If that is what you are looking for, Coder can help you for sure. 🙂
We are evaluating at using coder on AWS ECS to reduce maintenance requirements.Can you elaborate on this some more? Because, Coder is only one piece to the development puzzle, namely the control of dev environments. I'd just like you to be clear on what Coder can help you with. You'd still have to contend with the maintenance of a CI/CD and/or gitOps processes and they are just as much, if not more, of a maintenance headache. What Coder can offer is the eradication of having to make sure developer computers are all fitted with the same tools to do the same job, the same way, in a secure manner i.e. the upkeep of safety and standardization on local dev computers.
If that is what you are looking for, Coder can help you for sure. 🙂
(@cobsten)
I would like to know if coder is able to run on AWS ecs using the fargate configuration. Correct me if I'm wrong, from what i have garnered online, it appears that coder and its external provisioner are able to run on AWS using the EC2 configuration but not with the fargate configuration.
As far as reducing maintence requirements goes, the more we can leverage on fargate the better
Coder can run anywhere any infrastructure.
We don't have an example template for that but it should be possible
What you need is to pass the
CODER_AGENT_TOKEN to the ECS container and run the coder_agent.*.init_script as entrypoint.Yes, we understand that this may be the case for the workspaces. Are there any references for running external provisioners on AWS ECS?
You need to upadte the entrypoint of the container to
coder provisioner start and set CODER_URL and CODER_PROVISIONER_DAEMON_KEY
use the same ghcr.io/coder/coder imageThis may be a little off topic. But may i ask that for a trial licence that I set up locally, is there any way to migrate this to aws so that I may continue to test there ?
hey, i am not sure what you mean, do you already have a trial license and want to reuse it?
Yep that's correct. I have a trial licence for my local installation that I wish to reuse on the aws environment
you should be able to remove it on the old deployment and reuse it
let me know if you run into any issues
What about Fargate?