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@Marvin help me to generate a ecs task definiton for prefect workers using ec2 instance
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To generate an ECS task definition for Prefect workers using an EC2 instance, you'll want to follow these steps: 1. Prerequisites: Ensure you have: - An AWS account with permissions to create ECS services and IAM roles. - AWS CLI installed on your local machine. - An ECS Cluster to host both the worker and the flow runs. - A VPC configured for your ECS tasks. - A Prefect Cloud account or a self-managed Prefect instance. 2. Set up an ECS Work Pool: - Create a work pool of type ECS for the worker to pull work from. - You can specify a task definition ARN in the work pool, which the worker will use when spinning up the ECS Task. 3. Task Definition Details: - ECS tasks are defined by their task definitions, which describe the Docker containers to run. - You can choose between AWS Fargate and EC2 as the capacity provider. EC2 offers faster job start times and more control over instance management. 4. Example and Resources: - For an example using Fargate, refer to this ECS Worker Guide. - If you prefer infrastructure as code, check out Terraform modules to provision an ECS cluster with a Prefect worker. For more detailed guidance, you can explore the ECS Worker Guide in the Prefect documentation.