[ECS] [request]: Support alternative container runtimes with ecs-agent (containerd, podman, etc.)

rothgar commented 4 years ago

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It would be great if ecs-agent supported containerd instead of docker for the container runtime. I frequently get docker segfaults on various versions of Amazon Linux 1 and Amazon Linux 2 with the provided Docker packages. It would be nice to have an alternative with less features but hopefully more stability.

What do you want us to build? The option to run ecs-agent with containerd execution engine instead of docker.

Which service(s) is this request for? ECS

Tell us about the problem you're trying to solve. What are you trying to do, and why is it hard? Fewer pages and possible customer outages. When docker dies the ecs-agent eventually dies too. Once ecs-agent dies it kills all of the containers that were started via the ecs-agent without graceful shutdown.

Are you currently working around this issue? When the docker daemon crashes ecs-agent also dies. When this happens we automatically mark the instances as unhealthy.

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melo commented 4 years ago

Maybe this could be "extended" to "multiple container provider backends", like Podman.

autumn0207 commented 3 years ago

me too

sparrc commented 3 years ago

I have edited the title of this issue to cover all alternative container runtimes beyond just containerd. Podman support has also come up especially in relation to ECS Anywhere, since RHEL 8 no longer natively supports docker but does support podman.

pmv commented 3 years ago

Related - here is the specific issue I ran into when trying to get the ecs agent connected with RHEL 8 and podman: https://github.com/aws/amazon-ecs-agent/issues/2927