Delayed shutdown of ECS Fargate tasks?

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Hello,

I have a problem with delayed shutdown of ECS Fargate tasks, let me explain by example:

  • in a Docker image at the very last line of the entrypoint script I have simple echo statement. It's being logged at 11:18:22.004
  • I have another process, which is checking ECS tasks statuses on some events, an it's logged that at 11:18:30.023 (8 s later execution of last line of entrypoint) both last and desired statuses of the task are RUNNING

So my question is it expected that ECS Fargate takes more than 8 secs to shutdown task, specially considering that desired status also remains RUNNING after that time.

asked 2 years ago811 views
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An ECS/Fargate tasks stops when the application in your container stops (or for that matter if a critical container exits for any reason). If your container doesn't shut down, the task will keep on running. It would be good to take a closer look and see if there are any additional processes that continue to run in this case.

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Mats
answered 2 years ago
  • Thanks for this guess. Indeed in the middle of the entrypoint I launch some 3rd party software, which might be spawning process(es). I'll try to verify that and decrease stopTimeout of container to see if it helps.

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