ECS Fargate Deployment Issues with EFS on AWS

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I have below issues when trying to deploy ERPNext on ECS Fargate Cluster.

EFS Mount Hiding Container Files

  • I have a Docker image with pre-populated files under /home/frappe/frappe-bench/sites.

  • When I mount an EFS volume to this path in ECS, all existing files from the container disappear (EFS mount hides them).

  • I don’t want to manually copy files into EFS every time — is there a best practice to initialize EFS with the container files or another alternative?

Bench Config Updates Hang / Missing Keys

  • I use a configurator ECS task to update common_site_config.json using bench set-config.

  • When I chain multiple commands in the same task:

bench set-config -g db_host $DB_HOST;
bench set-config -gp db_port $DB_PORT;
bench set-config -g redis_cache "redis://$REDIS_CACHE";
bench set-config -g redis_queue "redis://$REDIS_QUEUE"

  • Only the first 3 keys get written; the last key (redis_queue) is missing.

  • The task sometimes hangs and doesn’t exit after finishing.

If this is not possible might have to deploy on EC2, without the features of the managed services.