My AWS Fargate Task auto stoped when adding command to task definition

Question

This is my CDK code

const laravelCommand = [
      "php",
      "artisan",
      "migrate"
    ]
 taskDefinition.addContainer(`${projectName}-${imageName}-container-${env}`, {
      containerName: `${projectName}-${imageName}-container-${env}`,
      image: ecs.ContainerImage.fromEcrRepository(props.laravelApiEcr, 'latest'),
      logging: laravelApiLogDriver,
      environment: {
        ...envValues.environmentVariables,
      },
      portMappings: [
        {
          containerPort: 80,
          hostPort: 80,
          protocol: ecs.Protocol.TCP
        }
      ],
      command: laravelCommand,
    })

When I comment my command command: laravelCommand,, then my task working perfectlly, but command added It will be stoped exit code 0 The log is only 'Nothing to migrate'

Why add laravel command to my ecs task then it will be auto stoped after the command excuted?

Answer 1

As mark-b said in replies, your command php artisan migrate runs migrations and stop. If you want to run webserver you have to launch a webserver launch command instead of launching migrations. For example you can add an entrypoint to your dockerfile to run the migration and an ECS command to start the webserver.

As a testing purpose you can replace your current command by php artisan serve --port=80 and see what happens. Normally it should fire up the built-in server and your task should keep running.

Be sure to not use this php built-in server for production, instead use Nginx for production.