Running an interactive console on Amazon ECS

Running and attaching to an interactive console on Amazon ECS is just a bit clunky. The simplest option is to SSH into a container instance and then docker exec -ti a console onto one of your running containers.

Using Docker and OverlayFS on Amazon ECS

If you’re using the ECS-optimised Amazon Linux AMI for your ECS instance hosts, the Docker engine on these instances will be using the devicemapper storage driver.

Load balanced PgBouncer service on Amazon ECS

PgBouncer is a great tool for pooling database connections and keeping connection logic in one place. With a Network Load Balancer and awsvpc task networking, it's easy to create a robust, load balanced PgBouncer service inside ECS, and it’s an…

How to use Amazon EFS with EC2 containers

Using EFS (Elastic File Storage) is a natural fit for ECS (EC2 Container Service) if you have any data you want to persist across containers lifetimes. Some use cases for that might be:

• WordPress and friends with media uploads…

Monitoring thousands of RabbitMQ queues with Datadog

Renaming a consul datacenter

This is simple enough to do, but requires the entire cluster to be taken offline for a short time. The KV store and ACL tokens will remain intact.

To mitigate the downtime, you should take measures such as returning a non-zero TTL for service DNS…

LoyaltyLion Prod & Tech Summit Q3 ‘23

Our Product & Engineering team has grown over the last 6 months and we are now distributed…

LoyaltyLion Tech Summit Q1 ‘23

In February ’23 we held our first Tech Summit of the year. I wanted to share some insights in why these…

Rendering arbitrary content with Varnish

Example scenario: you use Varnish, and have some misbehaving third-party JS which is currently spamming your server with 404s for non-existent files like check.js. You want to return an empty 200 response from Varnish directly.