Step 4: Configuring your service to use Service Discovery - Amazon Elastic Container Service
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Step 4: Configuring your service to use Service Discovery

Your Amazon ECS service can optionally use service discovery integration, which allows your service to be discoverable via DNS. For more information, see Service discovery.

If you are not configuring your service to use a service discovery, you can move on to the next section, Step 5: Configuring your service to use Service Auto Scaling.

To configure service discovery

  1. If you have not done so already, follow the basic service configuration procedures in Step 1: Configuring basic service parameters.

  2. On the Configure network page, select Enable service discovery integration.

  3. For Namespace, select an existing Amazon Route 53 namespace, if you have one, otherwise select create new private namespace.

  4. If creating a new namespace, for Namespace name enter a descriptive name for your namespace. This is the name used for the Amazon Route 53 hosted zone.

  5. For Configure service discovery service, select to either create a new service discovery service or select an existing one.

  6. If creating a new service discovery service, for Service discovery name enter a descriptive name for your service discovery service. This is used as the prefix for the DNS records to be created.

  7. Select Enable ECS task health propagation if you want health checks enabled for your service discovery service.

  8. For DNS record type, select the DNS record type to create for your service. Amazon ECS service discovery only supports A and SRV records, depending on the network mode that your task definition specifies. For more information about these record types, see Supported DNS Record Types in the Amazon Route 53 Developer Guide.

    • If the task definition that your service task specifies uses the bridge or host network mode, only type SRV records are supported. Choose a container name and port combination to associate with the record.

    • If the task definition that your service task specifies uses the awsvpc network mode, select either the A or SRV record type. If the type A DNS record is selected, skip to the next step. If the type SRV is selected, specify either the port that the service can be found on or a container name and port combination to associate with the record.

  9. For TTL, enter the resource record cache time to live (TTL), in seconds. This value determines how long a record set is cached by DNS resolvers and by web browsers.

  10. Choose Next step to proceed and navigate to Step 5: Configuring your service to use Service Auto Scaling.