003 - Use AWS Elastic Container Service for DHCP DNS

Date: 2020-05-27

Status

✅ Accepted

Context

We will need to run our DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol), DNS (Domain Name System) somewhere that support both TCP and UDP load balancing.

Decision

We have decided to use AWS Elastic Container Services. ECS is a fully managed container service. There is support for TCP and UDP network traffic with AWS load balancers.

Consequences

Advantages

Less administrative overhead than running virtual machines e.g. EC2 and less complexity than EKS.

Disadvantages

Still need to provision the service, require CI/CD tooling, operational documentation and forever maintaining those things.

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