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Before you go any further, make sure you have an Amazon ECS cluster and an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) database running on Fargate.

Make a connection between your task and the database.

• Create a Python script that connects to your MySQL database first.
• After that, write a Dockerfile with the commands needed to build an image. As an illustration:
• Make sure your rds.py script and Dockerfile are in the same directory.
• Create an Amazon ECR repository and upload the Docker image to it.
• Add the Docker image from step 2 as the container image to a task definition.
• Set the settings for the ENDPOINT, USER, and PASS environment variables in your job definition.
• These values can be passed as environment variables or retrieved using AWS Secrets Manager secrets.
• Then, from the navigation pane of the Amazon ECS interface, select Task Definitions.
• Choose your task definition, then Actions, and finally Run Task.7.For Launch type, choose FARGATE.
• Choose a cluster for your task specification in Cluster.
• Enter the number of tasks you want to be replicated in the Number of tasks field.
• In the VPC and security groups section, select your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Cluster VPC (Amazon VPC).
• Choose your subnets in the Subnets section.
• Choose at least one security group from the drop-down menu.
• Finally, select Run Task.
• The task is stopped by the rds.py script, which returns the following message:

“Essential container in task exited.”

 Make sure your task is linked to your database.

• Open the Amazon ECS console first, Amazon Relational Database Service
• Select Clusters from the navigation menu, and then your cluster.
• Select the Tasks tab from the drop-down menu.
• Choose Halted for Desired task status to show a list of tasks that have been stopped.
• Select the task that has been halted.
• In the Containers section of the Details page of your halted job, select the expander icon.
• Finally, select View logs in CloudWatch from the drop-down menu.
• In the AWS CloudWatch console, you should receive the following message:

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