PlacementStrategy
The task placement strategy for a task or service. For more information, see Task placement strategies in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide.
Contents
- field
-
The field to apply the placement strategy against. For the
spread
placement strategy, valid values areinstanceId
(orhost
, which has the same effect), or any platform or custom attribute that's applied to a container instance, such asattribute:ecs.availability-zone
. For thebinpack
placement strategy, valid values arecpu
andmemory
. For therandom
placement strategy, this field is not used.Type: String
Required: No
- type
-
The type of placement strategy. The
random
placement strategy randomly places tasks on available candidates. Thespread
placement strategy spreads placement across available candidates evenly based on thefield
parameter. Thebinpack
strategy places tasks on available candidates that have the least available amount of the resource that's specified with thefield
parameter. For example, if you binpack on memory, a task is placed on the instance with the least amount of remaining memory but still enough to run the task.Type: String
Valid Values:
random | spread | binpack
Required: No
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following: