Hi! I am confused about best practice for deploying a Docker container on ECS with Infrastructure blocks. My agent will be running on a long-standing ECS cluster. Do I only need a Docker infrastructure block for this? Or do I need to use an ECS task infrastructure block? Or some combination of both? Any insights or resources would be super appreciated!

The ECSTask infrastructure block is used to kick off ECS tasks when running the flows, you can similarly use the DockerContainer block to run flows in a docker container. The agent can live in a virtual machine or can be used to spin up infrastructure when you need to use it as well

Thanks for the quick response! It sounds like : • I can use the ECS task block OR docker block as my infrastructure block • The prefect agent cannot live in a docker container, it must live in a VM Did I understand correctly?

Yes to the first bullet, but the second you can have an agent live in a VM, or you can have an agent be spun up in a series of commands as it can kick off execution for you as well. checkout our infrastructure as code for more examples!

Thank you, sir! This is a great resource 👍

@Zachary Loertscher im working through the same thing! here is a separate convo... not sure it adds anything but also, you arent learning this alone! https://prefect-community.slack.com/archives/CL09KU1K7/p1679934838631069

Thanks for sharing , @Adam! Lots of valuable insights on that thread that are helping me to understand as well! Do you think you'll deploy with just a docker infra-block, or an ECS task block?

Im leaning toward custom dockerfile and ECS task block, waiting to get AWS permissions from my engineering team to really test it out. I had it working with a docker block but needed the agent to go to a VM and my team was more interested in using ECS.