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So I started off attacking this problem by seeing what ChatGPT had for ideas. It suggested using step functions, after taking a look at that, it didn’t really look like what I had in mind. So after some more digging I landed on using EventBridge to fire off an Elastic Container Service task. I haven’t gotten the event to actually fire yet, it keeps giving me a failedinvocation. I was able to test the ECS task itself and spent some of the morning and afternoon making adjustments to the worker so it could run in an ECS cluster task. In the end my ECS task successfully converted large mov files to mp4. Now I just need to get the events to fire correctly.

So I spent the afternoon working on my “worker” process for remuxing videos. This process went pretty well and I got everything working as expected on my laptop without to much fuss. The next step was to deploy the new “worker” to my servers in AWS which also went pretty well. Only one small permissions related change was needed to get the code working. Important Note: If you want your docker container to have the same permissions is as the VM that it’s running on, it needs to use the flag –network=”host”, I also used the flag -e AWS_REGION=US-East-1 and I was in business. The problems began when I went to test the remux process in production and the vm the “worker” was running on immediately stopped responding. Worse yet, the blog itself became unusable. While there are two nodes to serve up traffic, the health check when a host is impaired but online still needs some work.

Today I spent my morning working on fixing the order of my blog content and spent the afternoon working on a devops flow that isn’t trash for quick deployments. The flow is like Pycharm on my laptop -> zip -> scp -> project box -> unzip -> build -> kill existing process -> start new process -> https proxy through apache -> the web.

#!/bin/bash
#Check if we have a parameter
if [ $# -eq 1 ]; then
        #check if the parameter is a file that exists
        if [ -f "$1" ]; then
        unzip -o "$1"
        rm "$1"
        fi
fi
oldimage=$(docker images | grep -w vacuumflask | awk '{print $3}')
newimageid=$(sh build.sh | awk '{print $4}')
runninginstance=$(docker ps | grep -w "$oldimage" | awk '{print $1}')
docker kill "$runninginstance"
sh run.sh
nowrunninginstance=$(docker ps | grep -w "$newimageid" | awk '{print $1}')
docker ps
echo "new running instance id is: $nowrunninginstance"