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Cyril Duchon-Doris
Cyril Duchon-Doris

Reputation: 14039

Amazon ECS "the referenced cluster was inactive"

I followed the steps to install the ECS client on Ubuntu 16, but when I try to run the ECS container agent, it keeps restarting and when I have a look at the logs

2016-12-07T06:01:39Z [INFO] Starting Agent: Amazon ECS Agent - v1.13.1 (efe53c6)
2016-12-07T06:01:39Z [INFO] Loading configuration
2016-12-07T06:01:39Z [INFO] Checkpointing is enabled. Attempting to load state
2016-12-07T06:01:39Z [INFO] Loading state! module="statemanager"
2016-12-07T06:01:39Z [INFO] Event stream ContainerChange start listening...
2016-12-07T06:01:39Z [INFO] Detected Docker versions [1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23]
2016-12-07T06:01:39Z [INFO] Registering Instance with ECS
2016-12-07T06:01:39Z [ERROR] Could not register module="api client" err="ClientException: The referenced cluster was inactive.
    status code: 400, request id: 9eaa4124-bc42-11e6-9cf1-7559dea2bdf8"
2016-12-07T06:01:39Z [ERROR] Error registering: ClientException: The referenced cluster was inactive.
    status code: 400, request id: 9eaa4124-bc42-11e6-9cf1-7559dea2bdf8

I didn't find a reference for this error on google and I'm wondering what's wrong...

Do I need to create the cluster name on the ECS dashboard ? I have attacher the container role to my EC2 instance, which allows for cluster creation so I don't think the problem comes from here...

My docker run config

sudo docker run --name ecs-agent \
--detach=true \
--restart=on-failure:10 \
--volume=/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
--volume=/var/log/ecs/:/log \
--volume=/var/lib/ecs/data:/data \
--net=host \
--env=ECS_LOGFILE=/var/log/ecs-agent.log \
--env=ECS_LOGLEVEL=info \
--env=ECS_DATADIR=/data \
--env=ECS_CLUSTER=my-cluster \
--env=ECS_ENABLE_TASK_IAM_ROLE=true \
--env=ECS_ENABLE_TASK_IAM_ROLE_NETWORK_HOST=true \
amazon/amazon-ecs-agent:latest

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5331

Answers (1)

Samuel Karp
Samuel Karp

Reputation: 4682

You need to call aws ecs create-cluster --region $REGION --cluster my-cluster, call the CreateCluster API through the SDK, or create it in the console. The ECS agent will only automatically create a cluster named default, and only when ECS_CLUSTER is unspecified.

Upvotes: 4

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