[corg890]

They resisted vehemently for a long time, even when it was painfully obvious it was wrong, and you’d just end up having these totally surreal conversations with their ECS product manager that would make your head spin they made so little sense. Glad that’s over.

[zenlikethat]

That’s cause it’d be way better for them if ECS “won”, but it didn’t, so they adapted. Similar to how Docker now has had to add Kubernetes support after being combative and dragging their feet for years.

[corg890]

It was just pride since google is their rival, didn’t make any sense otherwise.

[yebyen]

I'm glad that I can run Kubernetes on AWS now (again), but I still can't run ECS on my laptop... hello Amazon? Are you home?

[zenlikethat]

I thought that’s what Blox is for https://github.com/blox/blox/blob/dev/README.md

[yebyen]

Does this just use a tool that runs on your laptop, to schedule and manage ECS clusters on Amazon? That's really not what I was looking for... I was hoping to prototype ECS-based solutions without spending money on cloud resources.

I have a laptop with 8GB+ RAM and a fast SSD, it doesn't have any trouble running fairly complex constellations on Minikube and I could later rebuild and/or install them on a production Kubernetes cluster, without any changes.

Can I do something like that with Blox, or is this another different way to consume ECS and spend money on EC2 nodes to run containers?

Edit: I would be satisfied if you told me, I still need to consume some AWS services like SNS and CloudWatch to use this toolkit, but that with Blox, I don't actually need to run my containers on ECS unless I want to expose them to the world.

I haven't found any tutorial or guide that indicates this is anything other than a different scheduler for ECS.

[yebyen]

Thank you!

[Rapzid]

"ECS product manager" pretty much sums it up. They are gonna tow the ECS line till the ship sinks. A program manager would have been the real convo. Now the EKS product manager's star will shine.