Has anyone run Rancher server on ECS? Is it possible?

Rancher 1.x
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I’m about to start going down the route of spinning up EC2 instances for Rancher, but given that it just needs to be a container host, is there any reason why you couldn’t install Rancher on ECS directly?

Thanks,
Erick

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Hi

We have just migrated our Rancher onto EC2, seems to work a treat and will be going into production in a few weeks.

As for ECS, my own instinct would be to avoid any potential lock-in which might result from ECS or GCS. The beauty of Rancher is that it will run the same on any given hosts, so can be quite easily moved to an alternate provider. For this reason we are avoiding some of the AWS services such as ELB etc and really just using it as vanilla hosting.

Hope this helps.

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That does make sense. The more I look at it, the more I think all the complexity around how ECS handles starting/scheduling would make it tricky.

Thanks,
Erick