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Configuring AWS ECS to have access to AWS EFS

If you would like to persist data from your ECS containers, i.e. hosting databases like MySQL or MongoDB with Docker, you need to ensure that you can mount the data directory of the database in the container to volume that's not going to dissappear when your container or worse yet, the EC2 instance that hosts your containers, is restarted or scaled up or down for any reason.

Don't know how to create your own AWS ECS Cluster? Go here!

New Cluster

Sadly the EC2 provisioning process doesn't allow you to configure EFS during the initial config. After your create your cluster, follow the guide below.

New Task Definition for Web App

If you're using an Alpine-based Node server like duluca/minimal-node-web-server follow this guide:

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In OS X 10.10 (Yosemite), Apache has been upgraded from 2.2 to 2.4, which includes some significant changes, and the default config file has changed quite a bit. When you install Yosemite, it renames your old config to httpd.conf~previous, and unfortunately your old one won't work anymore.

To get Apache working again, edit the following files:

/etc/apache2/httpd.conf

Uncomment:

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# Download, configure, make and install International Components for Unicode
wget http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/49.1/icu4c-49_1-src.tgz
tar xzvf icu4c-49_1-src.tgz
cd icu/source/
./runConfigureICU MacOSX
make
sudo make install

# Install libjpeg support for GD
brew install jpeg

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PHP_VER="5.5.14"
 
# Check if extension exists first
php -m | grep pgsql
 
# Update brew and install requirements
brew update
brew install autoconf
 
# Download PHP source and extract