Associate a queue and fleet - AWS Deadline Cloud
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Associate a queue and fleet

To process jobs, you must associate a queue with a fleet. You can associate a single fleet with multiple queues and a single queue with multiple fleets. When you associate a fleet with multiple queues, it divides its workers evenly among them. Similarly, when you associate a queue with multiple fleets, it distributes jobs evenly across those fleets.

Note

To use wait and save, we recommend you associate your queue only with a fleet that uses wait and save instance types. If you associate your queue with more than one fleet, and any of those fleets use spot or on-demand instance types, your fleet might not process your jobs with wait and save instances.

To associate an existing queue with an existing fleet, complete the following steps:

  1. From your Deadline Cloud farm, select the Queue you want to associate with a fleet. The queue displays.

  2. To select a fleet to associate with your queue, choose Associate fleets.

  3. Choose the Select fleets dropdown. A list of available fleets displays.

  4. From the list of available fleets, select the checkbox next to the fleet or fleets you want to associate with your queue.

  5. Choose Associate. The fleet association status should now be Active.

Stop a queue fleet association

To stop a queue fleet association, complete the following steps:

  1. From your queue, select the Associated fleets tab.

  2. Select the checkbox for the fleet you want to stop associating with the queue.

  3. From the Actions dropdown, select Eventual stop or Immediate stop.

    To finish processing jobs before the association stops, select Eventual stop. To immediately stop processing jobs, select Immediate stop.

  4. In the confirmation window, enter confirm and then choose Stop.

  5. (Optional) To disassociate the fleet from the queue, complete the following steps:

    1. Wait for the association status to change to Stopped.

    2. After the association has stopped, if you haven't already, select the checkbox for the fleet.

    3. From the Actions dropdown, select Disassociate fleet.

    4. In the confirmation window, choose Disassociate.

Reactivate a queue fleet association

To reactivate a queue fleet association, complete the following steps:

  1. From your queue, select the Associated fleets tab.

  2. Select the checkbox for the fleet you want to reactivate the queue fleet association.

  3. From the Actions dropdown, choose Start. The association status changes to Active.