Tag: shutdowns

To meet user demand, dynamic HTTP-based applications require constant scaling of Kubernetes pods. For applications exposed through Kubernetes ingress objects, the AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) distributes incoming traffic automatically across the newly scaled replicas. When Kubernetes applications scale down due to a decline in demand, certain situations will result in brief interruptions for end […]

February 2023: Parts of this blog are no longer accurate. Following enhancements to the ELB integration for ECS services, tasks running on Fargate Spot will be deregistered from a target group if it receives a spot termination notice before a SIGTERM is issued to the Task. Introduction Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) gives customers […]