AWS Node Scheduled to update ECS service

These functions run as a cron job using schedule event to update the desiredCount value of each ECS service. For more information on schedule event check out the Serverless docs on schedule.

Use Case

Common use is stop and start FRAGATE tasks to optimize costs.

Eg: all tasks in the Test environment stop at 6 PM and start again at 9 AM.

Cron syntax

cron(Minutes Hours Day-of-month Month Day-of-week Year)

Configuration

To specify the services that will be updated, it is necessary to edit the targets.yml file, which is the Input of each scheduled event.

services:
  - cluster: test-cluster
    service: service1
    desiredCount: 1
  - cluster: test-cluster
    service: service2
    desiredCount: 1

Deploy

In order to deploy simply run

sls deploy