auto-ecs

scripts for auto-setup of an ECS cluster and agent workdir

Directions:

1. Setup your config file (ssh_keypairs is the name of your ssh keypair to use for the ecs container instance):

cat << EOF > ./config.json
{
  "ec2_container_instance_type": "m5.xlarge",
  "ssh_keypairs": {
    "us-east-1": "us-east-1",
    "us-west-2": "dev-ec2"
  }
}
EOF

1. PRE-REQ: have an AWS account and be authorized to create resources. Install aws-cli, ecs-cli, and docker.
2. Run up.sh. This will create an ecs cluster with one container instance registered. It creates a file in the clusters/ directory with some necessary metadata for adding instances and other operations.
3. Create a task definition with something like the following command: aws ecs register-task-definition --region us-west-2 --cli-input-json file://sampletask.json
4. Run runtask.sh to run a task, editing the task definition name as needed.

Teardown:

1. Run down.sh [CLUSTER_NAME] to kill the service and teardown the ECS cluster stack. Cluster name is optional and if not passed will be gotten from the cluster.json file.