There might be times when you need to remove a container instance from your cluster, for example, to perform system updates or to scale down the cluster capacity. Amazon ECS provides the ability to transition a container instance to a DRAINING
status. This is referred to as container instance draining. When a container instance is set to DRAINING
, Amazon ECS prevents new tasks from being scheduled for placement on the container instance.
Any tasks that are part of a service that are in a PENDING
state are stopped immediately. If there is available container instance capacity in the cluster, the service scheduler will start replacement tasks. If there isn't enough container instance capacity, a service event message will be sent indicating the issue.
Tasks that are part of a service on the container instance that are in a RUNNING
state are transitioned to a STOPPED
state. The service scheduler attempts to replace the tasks according to the service's deployment type and deployment configuration parameters, minimumHealthyPercent
and maximumPercent
. For more information, see Amazon ECS services and Amazon ECS service definition parameters.
If minimumHealthyPercent
is below 100%, the scheduler can ignore desiredCount
temporarily during task replacement. For example, desiredCount
is four tasks, a minimum of 50% allows the scheduler to stop two existing tasks before starting two new tasks. If the minimum is 100%, the service scheduler can't remove existing tasks until the replacement tasks are considered healthy. If tasks for services that do not use a load balancer are in the RUNNING
state, they are considered healthy. Tasks for services that use a load balancer are considered healthy if they are in the RUNNING
state and the container instance they are hosted on is reported as healthy by the load balancer.
If you use Spot Instances and minimumHealthyPercent
is greater than or equal to 100%, then the service will not have enough time to replace the task before the Spot Instance terminates.
The maximumPercent
parameter represents an upper limit on the number of running tasks during task replacement, which allows you to define the replacement batch size. For example, if desiredCount
of four tasks, a maximum of 200% starts four new tasks before stopping the four tasks to be drained (provided that the cluster resources required to do this are available). If the maximum is 100%, then replacement tasks can't start until the draining tasks have stopped.
If both minimumHealthyPercent
and maximumPercent
are 100%, then the service can't remove existing tasks, and also cannot start replacement tasks. This prevents successful container instance draining and prevents making new deployments.
Any standalone tasks in the PENDING
or RUNNING
state are unaffected; you must wait for them to stop on their own or stop them manually. The container instance will remain in DRAINING
status.
A container instance has completed draining when all tasks running on the instance transition to a STOPPED
state. The container instance remains in a DRAINING
state until it is activated again or deleted. You can verify the state of the tasks on the container instance by using the ListTasks operation with the containerInstance
parameter to get a list of tasks on the instance followed by a DescribeTasks operation with the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) or ID of each task to verify the task state.
When you are ready for the container instance to start hosting tasks again, you change the state of the container instance from DRAINING
to ACTIVE
. The Amazon ECS service scheduler will then consider the container instance for task placement again.
The following steps can be used to set a container instance to draining using the new AWS Management Console.
You can also use the UpdateContainerInstancesState API action or the update-container-instances-state command to change the status of a container instance to DRAINING
.
Open the console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ecs/v2.
In the navigation pane, choose Clusters.
On the Clusters page, choose a cluster that hosts your instances.
On the Cluster : name
page, choose the Infrastructure tab. Then, under Container instances select the check box for each container instance you want to drain.
Choose Actions, Drain.
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