To meet the business requirements or to leverage third-party schedulers, you can create your own custom schedulers in Amazon ECS. Blox is an open source project to get more control over your containerized applications that run on Amazon ECS. With Amazon ECS, it will enable you to build and integrate third-party schedulers and leverage Amazon ECS to fully manage and scale the clusters.
The custom scheduler uses StartTask API for the operation to place the task within the cluster for specific container instances.
Custom schedulers are compatible with the tasks that use the EC2 launch type. The StartTask API does not work for Fargate launch types for the tasks.
- Task Placement: The RunTask and CreateService actions will enable ...
