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Expert AWS Development

You're reading from  Expert AWS Development

Product type Book
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788477581
Pages 408 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Atul Mistry Atul Mistry
Profile icon Atul Mistry
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters close

Title Page
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Contributors
Preface
1. AWS Tools and SDKs 2. Integrating Applications with AWS Services 3. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Workflow 4. CI/CD in AWS Part 1 – CodeCommit, CodeBuild, and Testing 5. CI/CD in AWS Part 2 – CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, and CodeStar 6. User Authentication with AWS Cognito 7. Evaluating the Best Architecture 8. Traditional Web Hosting – Amazon EC2 and Elastic Load Balancing 9. Amazon EC2 Container Service 10. Amazon Lambda – AWS Serverless Architecture 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Scheduling tasks


The Amazon ECS is an optimistic concurrency system in a shared state with elastic scheduling capabilities for containers and tasks. Amazon ECS uses Amazon ECS API's same state information for clusters to make appropriate decisions for placement. Amazon ECS has the ability to manually run tasks (for single run task or batch jobs) or service schedulers (for long-running tasks), where it places the task on the cluster for you. It allows you to define constraints and a task placement strategy, to run the task in the configuration you have selected, such as spread out in Availability Zones. You can also integrate with third-party or custom schedulers.

We can divide this section into the following topics:

  • Service scheduler
  • Manually running tasks
  • Running tasks on a cron-like schedule
  • Custom schedulers
  • Task life cycle
  • Task retirement

Service scheduler

The service scheduler is best suited for applications and long running services that are stateless. It will ensure that the stated numbers...

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