Multiple docker containers in one EC2 instance through AWS ECS

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tugberk picture tugberk · Nov 28, 2015 · Viewed 14.6k times · Source

Is it possible to run multiple docker containers in one EC2 instance through AWS ECS (EC2 Container Service)?

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tedder42 picture tedder42 · Nov 28, 2015

Yes.

AWS's documentation/product details doesn't ever come out and say it explictly, but it talks about launching many containers to a cluster. A cluster can be one instance.

When configuring a container, you specify memory and CPU usage. ECS uses that to "schedule" (or "pack") an EC2 with Docker containers.

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