Next steps? IP address/connect to server questions

[rossvz]

Hey there! I'm fairly inexperienced with AWS in general, but definitely haven't used ECS and CDK before!

I have ran the deployment script and I can see the container and stuff in ECS console. I think I'm missing a conceptual step - is this actually running the container and instance, or just creating the container image? Is there a manual step that needs to happen after the deploy?

If I go into ECS console -> Clusters I can see the Service and Task defined, but nothing under ECS Instances:

[rileydakota]

Hey there! Thanks for using the solution! So the code is actually pulling down https://github.com/lloesche/valheim-server-docker and running it using AWS ECS. Because we are using ECS Fargate - there is no actual "Instance" to manage. The solution assigns a public IP to the "task" (basically instructions and a template to run the valheim server docker image). You can see that by clicking on Tasks, clicking the task ID in the first column, and then looking for Public IP on the next page.

I will try to add some better documentation shortly that covers this. I will also look into capability for adding a Domain Name to the solution.

[rossvz]

Nice!! That's perfect. Got the IP 👍

Wonder if there's a way to get that programmatically with AWS cli and print to the console?

[rileydakota]

@rossvz I did look into trying to add it as a CloudFormation stack output - but didn't have much luck. The CLI command option is an interesting idea. I will look into that - maybe the CDK has some sort of "post deploy" functionality? Otherwise we could add the CLI command to the readme (feel free to PR :) - otherwise I will try and get to it this weekend). Thanks again for opening this issue!