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  Requirements for Consul Service Mesh on AWS ECS (Elastic Container Service).
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# Requirements

The following requirements must be met in order to install Consul on ECS:

1. **Terraform:** The tasks that you want to add to the service mesh must first be modeled in Terraform.
1. **Launch Type:** Fargate and EC2 launch types are supported.
1. **Subnets:** ECS Tasks can run in private or public subnets. Tasks must have [network access](https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/ecs-pull-container-api-error-ecr/) to Amazon ECR or other public container registries to pull images.
1. **Consul Servers:** You can use your own Consul servers (VM) or use HCP Consul. For development purposes or testing, you may use the `dev-server` [Terraform module](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-aws-consul-ecs/tree/main). The `dev-server` does not support persistent storage.
1. **ACL Controller:** If you are running a secure Consul installation, configure the ACL controller.
Consul ecs docs (#10288) * ECS docs 2021-05-26 18:25:06 +00:00			`---`
			`layout: docs`
			`page_title: Requirements - AWS ECS`
			`description: >-`
			`Requirements for Consul Service Mesh on AWS ECS (Elastic Container Service).`
			`---`

			`# Requirements`

updates to ECS docs per beta release 2021-09-14 23:36:52 +00:00			`The following requirements must be met in order to install Consul on ECS:`
Consul ecs docs (#10288) * ECS docs 2021-05-26 18:25:06 +00:00
			`1. Terraform: The tasks that you want to add to the service mesh must first be modeled in Terraform.`
updates to ECS docs per beta release 2021-09-14 23:36:52 +00:00			`1. Launch Type: Fargate and EC2 launch types are supported.`
Apply suggestions from code review Co-authored-by: mrspanishviking <kcardenas@hashicorp.com> 2021-09-15 17:46:00 +00:00			`1. Subnets: ECS Tasks can run in private or public subnets. Tasks must have [network access](https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/ecs-pull-container-api-error-ecr/) to Amazon ECR or other public container registries to pull images.`
			1. Consul Servers: You can use your own Consul servers (VM) or use HCP Consul. For development purposes or testing, you may use the `dev-server` [Terraform module](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-aws-consul-ecs/tree/main). The `dev-server` does not support persistent storage.
updates to ECS docs per beta release 2021-09-14 23:36:52 +00:00			`1. ACL Controller: If you are running a secure Consul installation, configure the ACL controller.`