AWS ECS
Manage ECS clusters, services, and tasks.
Environment Variables
- •
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID/AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY- AWS credentials - •
AWS_DEFAULT_REGION- Region
List clusters
bash
aws ecs list-clusters --query 'clusterArns[]' --output table
Describe cluster
bash
aws ecs describe-clusters --clusters my-cluster --query 'clusters[].{Name:clusterName,Status:status,Running:runningTasksCount,Pending:pendingTasksCount,Services:activeServicesCount}' --output table
List services
bash
aws ecs list-services --cluster my-cluster --query 'serviceArns[]' --output table
Describe service
bash
aws ecs describe-services --cluster my-cluster --services my-service --query 'services[].{Name:serviceName,Status:status,Running:runningCount,Desired:desiredCount,TaskDef:taskDefinition}' --output table
Update service (force new deployment)
bash
aws ecs update-service --cluster my-cluster --service my-service --force-new-deployment | jq '{serviceName: .service.serviceName, desiredCount: .service.desiredCount}'
Scale service
bash
aws ecs update-service --cluster my-cluster --service my-service --desired-count 3 | jq '{serviceName: .service.serviceName, desiredCount: .service.desiredCount}'
List tasks
bash
aws ecs list-tasks --cluster my-cluster --service-name my-service --query 'taskArns[]' --output table
Describe tasks
bash
aws ecs describe-tasks --cluster my-cluster --tasks $(aws ecs list-tasks --cluster my-cluster --service-name my-service --query 'taskArns[0]' --output text) --query 'tasks[].{TaskId:taskArn,Status:lastStatus,Health:healthStatus,StartedAt:startedAt}' --output table
View task logs
bash
aws logs tail /ecs/my-service --since 30m --format short
Describe task definition
bash
aws ecs describe-task-definition --task-definition my-task-def --query 'taskDefinition.{Family:family,Revision:revision,Cpu:cpu,Memory:memory,Containers:containerDefinitions[].{Name:name,Image:image,Cpu:cpu,Memory:memory}}' | jq .
List task definition revisions
bash
aws ecs list-task-definitions --family-prefix my-task-def --sort DESC --query 'taskDefinitionArns[:5]' --output table
Run standalone task
bash
aws ecs run-task --cluster my-cluster --task-definition my-task-def --count 1 --launch-type FARGATE \
--network-configuration 'awsvpcConfiguration={subnets=[subnet-xxx],securityGroups=[sg-xxx],assignPublicIp=ENABLED}' | jq '.tasks[].taskArn'
Notes
- •Use
--force-new-deploymentto trigger a rolling update with the same task definition. - •Confirm before scaling, updating, or stopping services.
- •Fargate tasks require network configuration; EC2 launch type may not.