Hey! How can I keep an ECS Agent running forever w...
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Kelly Huang
03/23/2021, 9:11 PMHey! How can I keep an ECS Agent running forever without timing out on Fargate without an EC2 instance??
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Mariia Kerimova
03/23/2021, 9:39 PMHello Kelly! You can use ECS Service, it can run agent task definition and ECS service scheduler will restart agent task in case if it failed.
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Sumit Kumar Rai
04/26/2021, 7:48 AM@Mariia Kerimova is there a tutorial for this?
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Mariia Kerimova
04/26/2021, 1:10 PMHello! I did open a PR, but it wasn't merged yet. You can check it out here: https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/pull/4302
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Sumit Kumar Rai
04/27/2021, 3:28 AMThank you. I'll check it.
Sumit Kumar Rai
05/03/2021, 10:43 AMA quick question. Does the ECS agent run 24x7 or does it automatically shutdown when there are no tasks around?
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Mariia Kerimova
05/03/2021, 1:06 PMIt should run your agents as long as you want to create flow runs, so most likely 24/7