I installed Nginx ECS Docker container service through AWS ECS, which is running without any issue. However, every other container services such as centos, ubuntu, mongodb or postgres installed through AWS ECS keeps restarting (de-registering, re-registering or in pending state) in a loop. Is there a way to install these container services using AWS ECS without any issue on AMI Optimized Linux? Also, is there a way to register Docker containers in AWS ECS that was manually pulled and ran from Docker Hub?
Usually if a container is restarting over and over again its because its not passing the health check that you setup. MongoDB for example does not use the HTTP protocol so if you set it up as a service in ECS with an HTTP healthcheck it will not be able to pass the healthcheck and will get killed off by ECS for failing to pass the healthcheck.
My recommendation would be to launch such services without using a healthcheck, either as standalone tasks, or with your own healthcheck mechanism.
If the service you are trying to run does in fact have an HTTP interface and its still not passing the healthcheck and its getting killed then you should do some debugging to verify that the instance has the right security group rules to accept traffic from the load balancer. Additionally you should verify that the ports you define in your task definition match up with the port of the healthcheck.