aws / aws/containers-roadmap

extraHosts param should allow choosing local-ipv4

Open
#365 7 comments 1 reaction 0 assignees View on GitHub
ECS Proposed
Dominant language
Shell
Stars
5.4k
Forks
334
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Description

The extraHost ipAddress param should allow some sort of variable "${local-ipv4}" or some such way to choose the ecs servers own IP rather than a hard coded ip.

This would be to support applications not yet migrated into service discovery.

For example it would be easier to migrate hundreds of apps that use statsd to horizontally scale to use their own statsd on an ECS server than to get hundreds of repos updated.

This model:
ECS server -> local statsd -> graph system
Over this one:
ECS server -> UDP packets to some pet server -> graph system

Ideally applications use service discovery, but this is not done quickly in some places.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

No repository file, test, or implementation entry point is named; start by reviewing ECS extraHost ipAddress behavior and the local statsd migration scenario described in the issue. Done would require a decided and documented way to resolve the ECS server’s local IPv4 address for extraHost, along with implementation details and validation criteria.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
aws
Domain
cloud
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.