Aws Ec2 Container Service Task Definition
The family and container definitions are required in a task definition while task role network mode volumes task placement constraints and launch type are optional.
Aws ec2 container service task definition. The iam role that your. It enables developers to deploy and manage scalable applications that run on groups of servers called clusters through application programming interface api calls and task definitions. Amazon elastic container service amazon ecs is a fully managed container orchestration service. In the following task definition the envoy container must reach a healthy status determined by the required container healthcheck parameters before the app container will start.
Applications must sign their aws api requests with aws credentials and this feature provides a strategy for managing credentials for your applications to use similar to the way that amazon ec2 instance profiles provide credentials to ec2 instances. The task family the iam task role the network mode container definitions volumes task placement constraints and launch types. Amazon ec2 container service ecs is a cloud computing service in amazon web services aws that manages containers. You pay for aws resources e g.
The aws ecs taskdefinition resource describes the container and volume definitions of an amazon elastic container service amazon ecs task. There are no minimum fees and no upfront commitments. There is no additional charge for ec2 launch type. The docker networking mode to use for the containers in your task.
Task definitions are split into separate parts. See detailed pricing information on the amazon ec2 pricing page. Ec2 instances or ebs volumes you create to store and run your application. You only pay for what you use as you use it.
You specify the task definition and the load balancer to use and amazon ecs automatically adds and removes containers from the load balancer. The command the container should run when it is started. Amazon ecs is a scalable service that is. Whether the task should continue to run if the container finishes or fails.
You can specify a dynamic port in the task definition which gives your container an unused port when it is scheduled on an amazon ec2 instance. The logging configuration to use for your tasks. Any data volumes that should be used with the containers in the task. For more information see container dependency.