Nowadays, it is very common to run applications on Spot instances. In this scenario, where a spot instance could be terminated at any point of time because of AWS pulling back their resource or ASG Scale-In incident, we need to have something in place to handle the termination smoothly so that we can complete our final tasks before the system shutdown. It could be executing some scripts, unmounting some storage device, shipping final log files to S3, or uploading cache data in a centralized server like Redis.
Today, I will attempt to cater to this problem.
First of all, let’s think of trying to run a custom script prior to shutdown in our local system. If everything works fine, the same would be applicable for ec2 spot instances too.
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