i am looking for a service that works like aws lambda. i would like to deploy a docker container. In this docker container runs for example a web application. the container should be started automatically when a user makes a request to the application. after a certain time, the container should be shut down again automatically.

i haven't found anything yet at digital ocean, azure, etc. what i can do is starting and stopping containers manually or via api, but not via an api gateway. is there already such a solution?

--- AWS App Runner ---

I was trying out the AWS App Runner. I have to scale a minimum size of 1. This means that the container will be online for a whole month. i just want to serve the application for a few hours in a month.

CodePudding user response：

AWS Lambda supports docker images. What you are describing is exactly how AWS Lambda already works.

If you want to use a more traditional docker image that doesn't comply with the Lambda API requirements, you might want to look at AWS App Runner.

CodePudding user response：

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is designed for this purpose, there are 2 launch types: FARGATE and EC2, I suggest to use FARGATE type for your case. For more information you need to read AWS docs (https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/?nc1=h_ls). There is an article could be useful with your case: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/using-amazon-api-gateway-with-microservices-deployed-on-amazon-ecs/