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gaut
gaut

Reputation: 5958

Amazon ECS : how to schedule a container?

I have a very simple ECS cluster using Fargate. I'd like to schedule a container to be run using a cron expression.

I created the task definition and a rule pointing to it using the EventBridge console, but I see nothing getting launched on the cluster. No logs, not even a trace of anything starting apart from the "monitor" tab of the rule which says it was triggered (but then again, I don't see any logs).

I'm guessing this might have to do with the public IP somehow needed for the rule to pull the container using Fargate? In the creation there is a setting called auto-assign public IP address but it only shows the DISABLED option.

Has anyone had the same problem? Should I just schedule a normal service with sleep times of 24hours between executions and risk a higher cost? Cheers

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1619

Answers (1)

Paolo
Paolo

Reputation: 26265

Since you mention that you have no issues running the task manually in the cluster, it's likely that the problem with EventBridge is that the role associated with the rule does not have enough permissions to run the task.

You can confirm this by checking CloudTrail logs. You'll find a RunTask event with a failure similar to the following:

User: arn:aws:sts::xxxx:assumed-role/Amazon_EventBridge_Invoke_ECS/xxx is not authorized to perform: ecs:RunTask on resource: arn:aws:ecs:us-east-1:xxxx:task-definition/ECS_task

Upvotes: 3

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