Amazon CLI for ECS Notes - tooltwist/documentation GitHub Wiki

Beware of old documentation

The ecs-cli commands are now obsolete - use the ecs commands within the regular aws CLI.

Getting started

See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-set-up.html

Useful commands

Installing the AWS CLI:

$ sudo pip install awscli

If you get an error message about uninstalling a package named 'six', you can probably ignore it.

Enter your credentials:

$ aws configure
AWS Access Key ID [****************5EPQ]: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx5EPQ
AWS Secret Access Key [****************tqPc]: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxtqPc
Default region name [us-west-1]: ap-southeast-1
Default output format [None]: json

CLI Reference:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ecs/index.html

Clusters

$ aws ecs list-clusters

Tasks

List running tasks:

$ aws ecs list-tasks --cluster dc-practise

Register a task:

$ aws ecs register-task-definition --cli-input-json file://`pwd`/t1.json ; echo $?

Latest version:

$ aws ecs list-task-definitions | grep mininal-junk | tail +1