How to run a task against ECS

• CodePipeline (DEV stacks only)
• Event Bridge --> CodePipeline (DEV stacks only)
• Event Bridge --> ECS Run Task
• Admin Tool --> ECS Run Task

What does Run Task do?

• Runs a container in a VPC
  • Can override the entrypoing
• Container performs a finite task and terminates
• Logs to CloudWatch or OpenSearch
• Does NOT have an awareness of ServiceDiscovery

Calling Run Task

• must specify VPC
• must specify subnets
• must specify security group
• Tasks are built with an Execution Role/Task Role just like our services

What image should we use

• current thinking our merrittdev container

Tasks Needed

Scheduled

• Run consistency checks (multiple Admin API calls)
• Start DEV stack
• Shutdown DEV stack
• Clean Access Queue
• Clean Ingest Queue?
• Clean ingest folders
• Cycle containers - to pull in the latest builds
• Backup LDAP
• Backup ZK

On Demand

• Run Admin Tool unit tests (multiple Admin API calls)
• Scale up service
• Scale down service