OpenTelemetry for AWS ECS-Fargate

Instructions

Additional Requirements:
- AWS Account - Intermediate to Advanced skill with ECS-Fargate
- Sufficient permissions to configure AWS

Step 1 - Setup

Clone repo:

git clone https://github.com/coralogix/workshops

Step 2 - Change to workshop dir

Change to the proper directory for workshop example:

cd ./workshops/workshops/otel/ecs-fargate

Step 3: Prep Requirements and deploy script

Study Coralogix OpenTelemetry ECS Fargate Example
Update the deploy-cf.sh script with your API key and Coralogix Region
Notice the environment variables in the container definition- ECS Fargate uses a localhost network space for sending traces

Step 4: Deploy Cloudformation to set up Fargate components

source deploy-cf.sh

Step 5: Launch Task

Launch according to your standard procedure
Ensure the security group can allow for port 5000 requests

The task creates the following containers:
- Coralogix Python autogenerator
- OpenTelemetry Collector

The microservice container create a Python HTTP client and server that will generate spans and logs and send to Coralogix