{"id":1248,"date":"2021-08-30T07:55:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T07:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.velaninfo.com\/rs\/?post_type=techtips&#038;p=1248"},"modified":"2021-10-04T10:01:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T10:01:15","slug":"connect-database-fargate-ecs-task","status":"publish","type":"techtips","link":"https:\/\/www.velaninfo.com\/rs\/techtips\/connect-database-fargate-ecs-task\/","title":{"rendered":"How can I connect to a database from a Fargate ECS task?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before you go any further, make sure you have an Amazon ECS cluster and an <strong>Amazon Relational Database Service<\/strong> (Amazon RDS) database running on Fargate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Make a connection between your task and the database.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create a Python script that connects to your MySQL database first.<\/li>\n<li>After that, write a Dockerfile with the commands needed to build an image. As an illustration:<\/li>\n<li>Make sure your rds.py script and Dockerfile are in the same directory.<\/li>\n<li>Create an Amazon ECR repository and upload the Docker image to it.<\/li>\n<li>Add the Docker image from step 2 as the container image to a task definition.<\/li>\n<li>Set the settings for the ENDPOINT, USER, and PASS environment variables in your job definition.<\/li>\n<li>These values can be passed as environment variables or retrieved using AWS Secrets Manager secrets.<\/li>\n<li>Then, from the navigation pane of the Amazon ECS interface, select Task Definitions.<\/li>\n<li>Choose your task definition, then Actions, and finally Run Task.7.For Launch type, choose FARGATE.<\/li>\n<li>Choose a cluster for your task specification in Cluster.<\/li>\n<li>Enter the number of tasks you want to be replicated in the Number of tasks field.<\/li>\n<li>In the VPC and security groups section, select your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Cluster VPC (Amazon VPC).<\/li>\n<li>Choose your subnets in the Subnets section.<\/li>\n<li>Choose at least one security group from the drop-down menu.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, select Run Task.<\/li>\n<li>The task is stopped by the rds.py script, which returns the following message:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cEssential container in task exited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>Make sure your task is linked to your database.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velaninfo.com\/rs\/tech-tips\/aws\/\"><strong>Amazon ECS console<\/strong><\/a> first, Amazon Relational Database Service<\/li>\n<li>Select Clusters from the navigation menu, and then your cluster.<\/li>\n<li>Select the Tasks tab from the drop-down menu.<\/li>\n<li>Choose Halted for Desired task status to show a list of tasks that have been stopped.<\/li>\n<li>Select the task that has been halted.<\/li>\n<li>In the Containers section of the Details page of your halted job, select the expander icon.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, select View logs in CloudWatch from the drop-down menu.<\/li>\n<li>In the AWS CloudWatch console, you should receive the following message:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At <strong>Velan<\/strong>, our server support engineers can help to connect the RDS database with ECS.\u00a0If you are interested in our service, please fill the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velaninfo.com\/contact\"><strong>Quick connect form<\/strong><\/a> to get in touch with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before you go any further, make sure you have an Amazon ECS cluster and an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) database running on Fargate. 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