Issues deploying to ECS

[vigneshsenapathy]

Hello @calvn ,

I am having trouble deploying git2consul to ecs.

I am getting the following error:
Config value is not valid JSON: undefined

below are the values i am using
config_file={"version":"1.0","repos":[{"name":"config","url":"github.com/test.git","include_branch_name":false,"source_root":"test","ignore_file_extension" : true,"branches":["master"],"hooks":[{"type":"polling","interval":"1"}]}]}

endpoint=consul
port=8500

I am using ur image also i check to make sure my config file is right or not and it is rendering a valid json.

Can you help me out in this

Thanks,

Vignesh

[calvn]

Can you test the same command that you are using directly/locally in docker? If that works, then it is probably an issue with the task definition template in ECS.

[vigneshsenapathy]

@calvn let me try it again.. u just want me to start it like how is do it in taskdef template right?

[calvn]

That's correct, and you can also share that command in here.

[vigneshsenapathy]

@calvn : can the config_file be directly be inserted as a env variable? that wat i am doing as i didnt create any file on the container

[calvn]

That is not possible, the config file needs to be a file in the container.

[calvn]

What you can do is use something like kickstarter/docker-s3-sync to place a config file from s3 to the host, and mount the volume (i.e. directory) that contains that file to the container via the task definition template.

[vigneshsenapathy]

@calvn so i just need to mount it right to /tmp/git2consul.d/config.json?

[vigneshsenapathy]

can the config_file be passed as a env variable as
config_file=/tmp/git2consul.d/config.json?

[calvn]

It cannot; it has to be passed in as an option flag. If that's the location where the config file lives in the host and you are passing in --config_file /tmp/git2consul.d/config.json, then you mount /tmp/git2consul.d:/tmp/git2consul.d

[vigneshsenapathy]

@calvn do u know how i can do this in ECS. Have you started git2consul using ecs?

[vigneshsenapathy]

@calvn : in ecs i looks something like this

    env:
    - name: config_file
      value: '{"version":"1.0","repos [{"name":"config","url":"https://user:password@github.com:org/repo.git","branches":["master"],"hooks":[{"type":"polling","interval":"1"}]}]}'
    - name: endpoint
      value: "10.244.4.241"
    - name: port
      value: "8500"

[calvn]

I have done so before with docker-s3-sync, so I know that it should work. Unfortunately, I no longer have the template file handy. I'd say go and give it a try, as the AWS docs are pretty extensive on how to run multiple containers and perform mounts.

[vigneshsenapathy]

@calvn : all i would need to do is mount it right ? if i mount the drive i can use it right

[calvn]

As I've said before, that won't work! You can't pass in the config file via env.

[vigneshsenapathy]

how do i pass options in ecs? i am trying to find that in task def, but not able to find it