Drone server with autoscaler doesn't work on AWS Elastic Beanstack

Drone Support
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Hi everyone.

I’m trying to run Drone.io on AWS Elastic Beanstack on the platform “Docker” and platform branch “ECS running on 64bit Amazon Linux 2”.

Before doing it, I run locally drone and runner to check that I don’t miss any configuration param.

Then I started to create the configuration files for drone server and drone runner.

Drone server (env drone-server):

{
  "AWSEBDockerrunVersion": 2,
  "volumes": [
    {
     "name": "root",
     "host": {
        "sourcePath": "/"
      }
    },
    {
     "name": "run",
     "host": {
        "sourcePath": "/var/run/"
     }
    },
    {
     "name": "sys",
     "host": {
        "sourcePath": "/sys/"
      }
    },
    {
     "name": "docker",
     "host": {
        "sourcePath": "/var/lib/docker/"
      }
    },
    {
     "name": "cgroup",
     "host": {
        "sourcePath": "/cgroup/"
      }
    },
    {
     "name": "dockersock",
     "host": {
        "sourcePath": "/var/run/docker.sock"
      }
    },
    {
     "name": "varlibdrone",
     "host": {
        "sourcePath": "/var/lib/drone"
      }
    },
    {
     "name": "varlibautoscaler",
     "host": {
        "sourcePath": "/var/lib/autoscaler"
      }
    }
  ],
  "containerDefinitions": [
    {
      "name": "drone-server-env",
      "image": "drone/drone:2.13.0",
      "essential": true,
      "memory": 2500,
      "mountPoints": [
        {
          "sourceVolume": "varlibdrone",
          "containerPath": "/var/lib/drone"
        }
      ],
      "environment": [
        {
          "name": "DRONE_GITLAB_SERVER",
          "value": "https://gitlab.com"
        },
        {
          "name": "DRONE_OPEN",
          "value": "true"
        },
        {
          "name": "DRONE_SERVER_HOST",
          "value": "drone.mydomain.com"
        },
                {
          "name": "DRONE_SERVER_PROTO",
          "value": "https"
        },
        {
          "name": "DRONE_GITLAB",
          "value": "true"
        },
        {
          "name": "DRONE_GITLAB_CLIENT_ID",
          "value": "APPLICATION_ID_FROM_GITLAB"
        },
        {
          "name": "DRONE_GITLAB_CLIENT_SECRET",
          "value": "APPLICATION_SECRET_FROM_GITLAB"
        },
        {
          "name": "DRONE_RPC_SECRET",
          "value": "some-strong-secret"
        },
        {
          "name": "DRONE_GITLAB_PRIVATE_MODE",
          "value": "true"
        },
        {
          "name": "DRONE_ADMIN",
          "value": "user"
        },
        {
          "name": "DRONE_DATABASE_DRIVER",
          "value": "postgres"
        },
        {
          "name": "DRONE_DATABASE_DATASOURCE",
          "value": "postgres://root:PSWD@postgres-droneio.1234567.eu-west-1.rds.amazonaws.com:5432/dronedb?sslmode=disable"
        },
        {
          "name": "DRONE_TLS_AUTOCERT",
          "value": "false"
        },
        {
          "name": "DRONE_LOGS_DEBUG",
          "value": "true"
        }
      ],
      "portMappings": [
        {
          "hostPort": 80,
          "containerPort": 80
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "drone-autoscaler",
      "image": "drone/autoscaler:1.8.2",
      "essential": true,
      "memory": 1000,
      "mountPoints": [
        {
          "sourceVolume": "varlibautoscaler",
          "containerPath": "/data"
        }
      ],
      "environment": [
        {
          "name": "DRONE_POOL_MIN",
          "value": "1"
        },
        {
          "name": "DRONE_POOL_MAX",
          "value": "2"
        },
        {
          "name": "DRONE_SERVER_PROTO",
          "value": "https"
        },
        {
          "name": "DRONE_SERVER_HOST",
          "value": "drone.mydomain.com"
        },
        {
          "name": "DRONE_SERVER_TOKEN",
          "value": "GITLAB_USER_ACCESS_TOKEN"
        },
        {
          "name": "DRONE_AGENT_TOKEN",
          "value": "some-strong-secret"
        },
        {
          "name": "DRONE_AMAZON_REGION",
          "value": "eu-west-1"
        },
        {
          "name": "DRONE_AMAZON_SUBNET_ID",
          "value": "subnet-1234567"
        },
        {
          "name": "DRONE_AMAZON_SECURITY_GROUP",
          "value": "sg-aaaa234"
        },
        {
          "name": "DRONE_AMAZON_SSHKEY",
          "value": "drone"
        },
        {
          "name": "DRONE_AMAZON_INSTANCE",
          "value": "c5.large"
        },
        {
          "name": "AWS_IAM",
          "value": "true"
        }
      ],
      "portMappings": [
        {
          "hostPort": 8080,
          "containerPort": 8080
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Drone runner (env drone-agent):

{
  "AWSEBDockerrunVersion": 2,
  "volumes": [
    {
     "name": "root",
     "host": {
        "sourcePath": "/"
      }
    },
    {
     "name": "run",
     "host": {
        "sourcePath": "/var/run/"
     }
    },
    {
     "name": "sys",
     "host": {
        "sourcePath": "/sys/"
      }
    },
    {
     "name": "docker",
     "host": {
        "sourcePath": "/var/lib/docker/"
      }
    },
    {
     "name": "cgroup",
     "host": {
        "sourcePath": "/cgroup/"
      }
    },
    {
     "name": "dockersock",
     "host": {
        "sourcePath": "/var/run/docker.sock"
      }
    }
  ],
  "containerDefinitions": [
    {
      "name": "drone-agent",
      "image": "drone/drone-runner-docker:1.8.2",
      "essential": true,
      "memory": 2000,
      "mountPoints": [
        {
          "sourceVolume": "dockersock",
          "containerPath": "/var/run/docker.sock"
        }
      ],
      "environment": [
        {
          "name": "DRONE_RPC_PROTO",
          "value": "https"
        },
        {
          "name": "DRONE_RPC_HOST",
          "value": "drone.mydomain.com"
        },
        {
          "name": "DRONE_RPC_SECRET",
          "value": "some-strong-secret"
        },
        {
          "name": "DRONE_RUNNER_CAPACITY",
          "value": "2"
        },
        {
          "name": "DRONE_HEALTHCHECK",
          "value": "true"
        },
        {
          "name": "DRONE_RUNNER_NAME",
          "value": "runner"
        }
      ],
      "portMappings": [
        {
          "hostPort": 80,
          "containerPort": 3000
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

In the logs I see only one error:
{“error”:“Get "https://drone.mydomain.com/api/queue\”: dial tcp 11.11.213.345:443: i/o timeout",“id”:“1uue8VwWTEYV3tCV”,“level”:“error”,“msg”:“cannot calculate unfinished jobs”,“time”:“2022-10-06T09:01:29Z”}

It doesn’t work.

Do you have any ideas what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks

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i/o timeout is an error from the Go http library that indicates a DNS timeout when attempting to reach drone.mydomain.com. Do you need to replace drone.mydomain.com with your actual Drone domain name? Or is there a DNS issue in your environment?

3

Hi Brad.
Thanks for your help.

Actually, this url is not available because drone-server container doesn’t provide any service between host and container. The configuration worked before with the version Drone 0.8 (with small changes in the env params). But now in a new version it doesn’t work.

This is the reason I ask the question and share my configuration. Maybe you can pay attention to what I missed.

Thanks