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Chad Schmutzer, AWS Solutions Architect

October 24th, 2016

Scheduling Containers on

Amazon ECS

What is Amazon ECS?

Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) is a highly scalable,

high performance container management service. You

can use Amazon ECS to schedule the placement of

containers across your cluster. You can also integrate your

own scheduler or third-party scheduler to meet business

or application specific requirements.

Agenda

Container Management

Scheduling

Benefits

Demo

Container Management

Maintains Available Resources

Tracks Resource Changes

Accepts Resource Requests

Guarantees Accuracy and Consistency

What is a Container Manager?

CPU

Memory

Ports

Disk Space

Disk IOPS

Network Bandwidth

Resources

ECS

Agent

Docker

Task

Container Instance

Container

ECS Agent

Task

Container

Instance Registration

register-container-instance --total-resources

[

{

“name” : “cpu”,

“type” : “integerValue”,

“integerValue” : 2048

},

…

]

Modifying Exposed Resources

Accepting Resource Requests

Tasks

Shared Data Volume

Containers

launchContainer

Instance

Volume Definitions

Container Definitions

Starting a Task

API

User /

Scheduler

StartTask

Starting a Task

API

User /

Scheduler

StartTask

Cluster Management Engine

Starting a Task

API

User /

Scheduler

StartTask

Cluster Management Engine

Agent Communication

Starting a Task

API

User /

Scheduler

StartTask

Cluster Management Engine

Agent Communication

Docker

Container Instance

ECS Agent

Task

Container

WebSocket

Starting a Task

API

User /

Scheduler

StartTask

Cluster Management Engine

Agent Communication

Docker

Task

Container Instance

Container

ECS Agent

Task

Container

SubmitStateChange

Tracking Resource Changes

Terminated Task

API

User /

Scheduler

StartTask

Cluster Management Engine

Agent Communication

Docker

Task

Container Instance

Container

ECS Agent

SubmitStateChange

Missing Container Instance

API

User /

Scheduler

StartTask

Cluster Management Engine

Docker

Task

Container Instance

Container

ECS Agent

?

Agent Communication

Terminated Container Instance

API

User /

Scheduler

StartTask

Cluster Management Engine

Agent Communication

Termination

Notifier

Docker

Task

Container Instance

Container

ECS Agent

Guaranteeing Accuracy and

Consistency

Amazon ECS under the Hood

IDN-1 IDN IDN+1 IDN+2 IDN+3 IDN+4 IDN+5

IDN+6

IDN+5

WRITE

READ

Amazon ECS under the Hood

IDN-1 IDN IDN+1 IDN+2 IDN+3 IDN+4 IDN+5

IDN+6IDN+3

IDN+5IDN+2

WRITE WRITE

READREAD

Schedulers

What is a Scheduler?

Determine Desired State

Check Against Current State

Perform Action

ECS Schedulers

Batch Jobs

ECS Task scheduler

Run tasks once

Batch jobs

RunTask (random)

StartTask (placed)

Long-Running Apps

ECS Service scheduler

Health management

Scale-up and scale-down

AZ aware

Grouped Containers

Custom Schedulers

1. Calls the ECS List* and Describe* API operations to

determine the current state of the cluster.

2. Selects one (or more) container instances according to

the logic implemented.

3. Calls StartTask API to start a task on the selected

container instance.

Integration with third party schedulers

ECS allows you to use third party schedulers, e.g.

Marathon and Chronos

Integration via ECS API

For Mesos schedulers, the ECSSchedulerDriver interprets

the command given when scheduling jobs with Mesos and

starts a task with TaskDefinition family:revision

Amazon ECS Service Scheduler

Discovering DifferencesDeployment Status Desired Pending Running

ecs-svc/1 PRIMARY 5 0 0

Minimum Healthy Maximum Healthy

50% 200%

Steady State

Determine

Placement Options

Deploy Task

Service State Machine

RUNNING == DESIRED

RUNNING != DESIRED &&

STATUS == PRIMARY

ALL_RUNNING < MAX_HEALTHY

Discovering DifferencesDeployment Status Desired Pending Running

ecs-svc/2 PRIMARY 10 0 0

ecs-svc/1 ACTIVE 5 0 5

Minimum Healthy Maximum Healthy

50% 200%

Steady State

Determine

Placement Options

Deploy Task

RUNNING == DESIRED

RUNNING != DESIRED &&

STATUS == PRIMARY

ALL_RUNNING < MAX_HEALTHY

Service State Machine

Clear Deployment Kill Task

ALL_RUNNING >

MAX_HEALTHY

RUNNING != DESIRED &&

STATUS == ACTIVE

Other Considerations

ELB Registration/Deregistration

Permissions and Errors

Task Health

Scale Down Requests

Multiple Schedulers

Amazon ECS – Scheduling

Amazon ECS – Scheduling

Amazon ECS – Scheduling

Amazon ECS – Scheduling

Demo

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