fix(deadline): allow traffic from RenderQueue to UsageBasedLicensing #617
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Problem
When rendering jobs with Deadline Third-Party Usage Based Licensing (UBL) with a fleet of 50 workers, the API endpoints served by the
RenderQueue
construct become locked-up and eventually return503 Service Unavailable
responses. The health checks on the Application Load Balancer detect this problem and signal to ECS to replace the task - causing a render farm disruption.Solution
It was determined that the RCS request handlers were blocked attempting to communicate with the Deadline License Forwarder deployed by the
UsageBasedLicensing
construct. It was discovered that RFDK does not create a security group rule to allow this traffic from theRenderQueue
→UsageBasedLicensing
. The Deadline Remote Connection Server uses a long connection timeout and with a sufficiently large number of workers rendering jobs, the request handling threads become blocked waiting for these connections to time out.The solution is to add a security group rule when creating a
UsageBasedLicensing
construct instance to allow this traffic and avoid connection timeouts.Testing
AWS-All-In-Infrastructure-Basic
example app was configured to use UBL. It deployed successfully and allRenderQueue
performance degradations and disruptions disappearedBy submitting this pull request, I confirm that my contribution is made under the terms of the Apache-2.0 license