AWS ECS tasks

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/task_definitions.html

• Amazon ECS task placement strategies

Commands

• aws ecs list-tasks
• aws ecs list-task-definitions
• aws ecs register-task-definition --container-definitions
• aws ecs describe-task-definition
• aws ecs update-service --cluster your_cluster_name --service your_service-name --force-new-deployment

Errors

• Error: error creating MyECSServiceName service
• is unable to consistently start tasks successfully
• Essential container in task exited
• Resourceinitializationerror: unable to pull secrets or registry auth
• exec format error
• Is already using a port required by your task.

Logs

• Task failed ELB health checks in
• Scaling activity initiated by

News

• Amazon ECS Task Definition Deletion

Activities

• How do I allow Amazon ECS tasks to pull images from an Amazon ECR image repository?, execution_role_arn

Related

• AWS ECS task definitions
• Task definition parameters
• AWS::ECS::TaskDefinition
• AWS::ECS::TaskDefinition ContainerDefinition
• AWS ECS service
• Terraform resource: aws_ecs_service
• aws_ecs_task_definition
• Task overview
• Stopped tasks error codes

See also

• Terraform resource: aws_ecs_task_definition: container_definitions, family, revision, cpu, cpu_architecture, memory, MemoryReservation, volume, execution_role_arn, requires_compatibilities, dependsOn
• AWS ECS tasks: aws ecs [ list-tasks | list-task-definitions | describe-task-definition | register-task-definition ], ContainerDefinitions, AmazonECSTaskExecutionRolePolicy
• AWS ECS: aws ecs [ create-cluster | create-service | update-service | list-clusters | list-services | describe-cluster | describe-services | describe-tasks | put-account-setting | execute-command | run-task ]
• Amazon ECS, Service, Tasks (Task overview), capacity providers, Cluster Auto Scaling (CAS), aws ecs, ecs-cli, ~/.ecs/config, AWS Copilot, AWS Fargate, AWS CloudWatch Container Insights, /etc/ecs/ecs.config, Security group (SG), container agent, task definition, Amazon ECS events, best practices, Amazon ECS Exec Checker, Amazon ECS Agent, Service Connect, AWSServiceRoleForECS, Terraform ECS, AWS ECS Rolling deployments