Fargate with Docker compose Links

Question

We have an application that uses docker compose that contains links.

I'm trying to deploy this using aws-cli on Amazon Fargate using this command:

ecs-cli compose --project-name myApp --file docker-compose-aws.yml --ecs-params fargate-ecs-params.yml --cluster myCluster --region us-east-1 up --launch-type FARGATE

When my fargate-ecs-params.yml has ecs_network_mode: awsvpc I get the error: Links are not supported when networkMode=awsvpc

So I've tried changing to ecs_network_mode: awsvpc, however I then get the error: Fargate only supports network mode ‘awsvpc’

My question is how do I create a task definition for Fargate with a compose file that contains links? Or is this not possible (and in that case then what are my alternatives?)

Answer 1

You can place both container in same task definitons they will automatically linked with each other.