Deploying Retool on-prem using the Terraform templates, need help debugging

Self Hosted Retool
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I followed the instructions here and have successfully spun up the resources with Terraform

However when visiting the DNS Name of the load balancer, which I got from the AWS console, the browser does not load anything. I tried both with and without port 3000. Any ideas how to debug? The only thing I added was an existing VPC and two subnet ids.

provider "aws" {
  region = "us-west-2"
}

terraform {
  backend "s3" {
    bucket  = "testforesitelabs-terraform"
    key     = "retool/terraform.tfstate"
    region  = "us-west-2"
    encrypt = true
  }
}

module "retool" {
  source = "./module"
  aws_region = "us-west-2"
  vpc_id = "vpc-009ef99629dab0fff"
  subnet_ids = [
      "subnet-067ff1fe3a23ce09f",
      "subnet-0512f37af80344aa4"
  ]
  ssh_key_name = "retool-test"
  ecs_retool_image = "2.115.2"
}

I put all the code in the repo into a "module" folder
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Hey Ashton! Would you mind sharing any container logs you have? Also, are there any errors in your browser console?

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dockerlogs.csv (103.9 KB)

yes, here are the logs from the only EC2 instance, thanks so much! I put the minimum instances as one. Not sure how to get logs for the load balancer. pardon my inexperience with Terraform and Docker.

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Any update on this? Any help would be appreciated!

5

Hey Ashton!

What command are you running to grab those logs? And how many containers do you currently see running? I wonder if you have some conflicts :thinking:

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No problem. Has anyone actually succeeded in spinning up Retool via the instructions here? https://github.com/tryretool/terraform-retool-modules/tree/main/modules/aws_ecs_ec2
I didn't change anything except the min_instance_count to 1, so there is one running. Can I book an appointment with someone? I can't keep these resources up and running for days when I wait for a response, I had to destroy them each time. I am sure someone can find out the issue quickly via video call. It is necessary for our organization to be able to spin up Retool via Terraform.

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Hey Ashton! Yeah, I believe people have been successful :slight_smile: And I might have a lead for us to follow here :eyes:

Looking at this line in your logs:

level=error time=2023-04-17T17:48:14Z msg="Failed to pull image for container" task="9897219894824b529435dcb91df14486" container="retool-jobs-runner" image="2.115.2" error="Error response from daemon: pull access denied for 2.115.2

It seems like the image tag might need to be tryretool/backend:2.115.2