Lightsail - container "Took too long" to deploy all of a sudden (Nothing in logs)

Question

Hello,

yesterday I was able to publish a new container into one of our Lightsails with no issues. Today when I try, the deployment fails, and the only thing visible in the logs says;

`[16/Dec/2021:13:49:54] [deployment:13] Creating your deployment`

`[16/Dec/2021:13:54:28] [deployment:13] Took too long`

I have tried multiple of lightsails, and no matter what I try to commit, this happens. I can't debug it further since the log doesnt say anything more than this. Im trying to deploy a container with two images (php + nginx), and both images logs says the same. I have disabled the lightsails and enabled them again and they just revert back to the last working image - which is exactly the same as the one I try to deploy (Except just a minor php echo in the index.php-file which can't have any reason why it's not working..)

What can I do - since the logs are so poor?

Answer

There are two things worth trying:

1. Adjust the logging on the containers you're trying to deploy. The logs that you see on Lightsail are the same as the logs from the containers themselves (Lightsail just adds a couple logs about deployment status), so if you're not getting enough information, you need to log more from your containers.
2. Adjust your healthcheck settings. Some containers take longer than the default settings to become healthy. You can adjust your healthcheck settings when you create a deployment. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lightsail/2016-11-28/api-reference/API_ContainerServiceHealthCheckConfig.html

Answer

I resolved this issue by adding `CMD` command inside my lauch script. Since my container was running php-fpm I added this code at the end of launch script
```
set -- php-fpm "$@"
exec "$@"
```

Answer

I went through this problem, your application is taking a long time to start, in my case it is a large application in spring boot. To solve it you have to increase the processing of your cluster, I was increased and testing, when I reached that 1 GB RAM, 0.5 vCPUs worked.

Lightsail - container "Took too long" to deploy all of a sudden (Nothing in logs)

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