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account_id
Type: STRING
compatibilities
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRING
Provider name: compatibilities
Description: The task launch types the task definition validated against during task definition registration. For more information, see Amazon ECS launch types in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide.
container_definitions
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRUCT
Provider name: containerDefinitions
Description: A list of container definitions in JSON format that describe the different containers that make up your task. For more information about container definition parameters and defaults, see Amazon ECS Task Definitions in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide.
command
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRING
Provider name: command
Description: The command that’s passed to the container. This parameter maps to Cmd
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the COMMAND
parameter to docker run. For more information, see https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder/#cmd. If there are multiple arguments, each argument is a separated string in the array.
cpu
Type: INT32
Provider name: cpu
Description: The number of cpu
units reserved for the container. This parameter maps to CpuShares
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the –cpu-shares
option to docker run. This field is optional for tasks using the Fargate launch type, and the only requirement is that the total amount of CPU reserved for all containers within a task be lower than the task-level cpu
value. You can determine the number of CPU units that are available per EC2 instance type by multiplying the vCPUs listed for that instance type on the Amazon EC2 Instances detail page by 1,024. Linux containers share unallocated CPU units with other containers on the container instance with the same ratio as their allocated amount. For example, if you run a single-container task on a single-core instance type with 512 CPU units specified for that container, and that’s the only task running on the container instance, that container could use the full 1,024 CPU unit share at any given time. However, if you launched another copy of the same task on that container instance, each task is guaranteed a minimum of 512 CPU units when needed. Moreover, each container could float to higher CPU usage if the other container was not using it. If both tasks were 100% active all of the time, they would be limited to 512 CPU units. On Linux container instances, the Docker daemon on the container instance uses the CPU value to calculate the relative CPU share ratios for running containers. For more information, see CPU share constraint in the Docker documentation. The minimum valid CPU share value that the Linux kernel allows is 2. However, the CPU parameter isn’t required, and you can use CPU values below 2 in your container definitions. For CPU values below 2 (including null), the behavior varies based on your Amazon ECS container agent version:- Agent versions less than or equal to 1.1.0: Null and zero CPU values are passed to Docker as 0, which Docker then converts to 1,024 CPU shares. CPU values of 1 are passed to Docker as 1, which the Linux kernel converts to two CPU shares.
- Agent versions greater than or equal to 1.2.0: Null, zero, and CPU values of 1 are passed to Docker as 2.
On Windows container instances, the CPU limit is enforced as an absolute limit, or a quota. Windows containers only have access to the specified amount of CPU that’s described in the task definition. A null or zero CPU value is passed to Docker as 0
, which Windows interprets as 1% of one CPU.
credential_specs
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRING
Provider name: credentialSpecs
Description: A list of ARNs in SSM or Amazon S3 to a credential spec (CredSpec
) file that configures the container for Active Directory authentication. We recommend that you use this parameter instead of the dockerSecurityOptions
. The maximum number of ARNs is 1. There are two formats for each ARN.- credentialspecdomainless:MyARN
- You use
credentialspecdomainless:MyARN
to provide a CredSpec
with an additional section for a secret in Secrets Manager. You provide the login credentials to the domain in the secret. Each task that runs on any container instance can join different domains. You can use this format without joining the container instance to a domain. - credentialspec:MyARN
- You use
credentialspec:MyARN
to provide a CredSpec
for a single domain. You must join the container instance to the domain before you start any tasks that use this task definition.
In both formats, replace MyARN
with the ARN in SSM or Amazon S3. If you provide a credentialspecdomainless:MyARN
, the credspec
must provide a ARN in Secrets Manager for a secret containing the username, password, and the domain to connect to. For better security, the instance isn’t joined to the domain for domainless authentication. Other applications on the instance can’t use the domainless credentials. You can use this parameter to run tasks on the same instance, even it the tasks need to join different domains. For more information, see Using gMSAs for Windows Containers and Using gMSAs for Linux Containers.
depends_on
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRUCT
Provider name: dependsOn
Description: The dependencies defined for container startup and shutdown. A container can contain multiple dependencies on other containers in a task definition. When a dependency is defined for container startup, for container shutdown it is reversed. For tasks using the EC2 launch type, the container instances require at least version 1.26.0 of the container agent to turn on container dependencies. However, we recommend using the latest container agent version. For information about checking your agent version and updating to the latest version, see Updating the Amazon ECS Container Agent in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide. If you’re using an Amazon ECS-optimized Linux AMI, your instance needs at least version 1.26.0-1 of the ecs-init
package. If your container instances are launched from version 20190301
or later, then they contain the required versions of the container agent and ecs-init
. For more information, see Amazon ECS-optimized Linux AMI in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide. For tasks using the Fargate launch type, the task or service requires the following platforms:- Linux platform version
1.3.0
or later. - Windows platform version
1.0.0
or later.
condition
Type: STRING
Provider name: condition
Description: The dependency condition of the container. The following are the available conditions and their behavior:START
- This condition emulates the behavior of links and volumes today. It validates that a dependent container is started before permitting other containers to start.COMPLETE
- This condition validates that a dependent container runs to completion (exits) before permitting other containers to start. This can be useful for nonessential containers that run a script and then exit. This condition can’t be set on an essential container.SUCCESS
- This condition is the same as COMPLETE
, but it also requires that the container exits with a zero
status. This condition can’t be set on an essential container.HEALTHY
- This condition validates that the dependent container passes its Docker health check before permitting other containers to start. This requires that the dependent container has health checks configured. This condition is confirmed only at task startup.
container_name
Type: STRING
Provider name: containerName
Description: The name of a container.
disable_networking
Type: BOOLEAN
Provider name: disableNetworking
Description: When this parameter is true, networking is off within the container. This parameter maps to NetworkDisabled
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API. This parameter is not supported for Windows containers.
dns_search_domains
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRING
Provider name: dnsSearchDomains
Description: A list of DNS search domains that are presented to the container. This parameter maps to DnsSearch
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the –dns-search
option to docker run. This parameter is not supported for Windows containers.
dns_servers
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRING
Provider name: dnsServers
Description: A list of DNS servers that are presented to the container. This parameter maps to Dns
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the –dns
option to docker run. This parameter is not supported for Windows containers.
docker_labels
Type: MAP_STRING_STRING
Provider name: dockerLabels
Description: A key/value map of labels to add to the container. This parameter maps to Labels
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the –label
option to docker run. This parameter requires version 1.18 of the Docker Remote API or greater on your container instance. To check the Docker Remote API version on your container instance, log in to your container instance and run the following command: sudo docker version –format ‘{{.Server.APIVersion}}’
docker_security_options
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRING
Provider name: dockerSecurityOptions
Description: A list of strings to provide custom configuration for multiple security systems. For more information about valid values, see Docker Run Security Configuration. This field isn’t valid for containers in tasks using the Fargate launch type. For Linux tasks on EC2, this parameter can be used to reference custom labels for SELinux and AppArmor multi-level security systems. For any tasks on EC2, this parameter can be used to reference a credential spec file that configures a container for Active Directory authentication. For more information, see Using gMSAs for Windows Containers and Using gMSAs for Linux Containers in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide. This parameter maps to SecurityOpt
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the –security-opt
option to docker run. The Amazon ECS container agent running on a container instance must register with the ECS_SELINUX_CAPABLE=true
or ECS_APPARMOR_CAPABLE=true
environment variables before containers placed on that instance can use these security options. For more information, see Amazon ECS Container Agent Configuration in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide. For more information about valid values, see Docker Run Security Configuration. Valid values: “no-new-privileges” | “apparmor:PROFILE” | “label:value” | “credentialspec:CredentialSpecFilePath”
entry_point
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRING
Provider name: entryPoint
Description: Early versions of the Amazon ECS container agent don’t properly handle entryPoint
parameters. If you have problems using entryPoint
, update your container agent or enter your commands and arguments as command
array items instead. The entry point that’s passed to the container. This parameter maps to Entrypoint
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the –entrypoint
option to docker run. For more information, see https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder/#entrypoint.
environment
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRUCT
Provider name: environment
Description: The environment variables to pass to a container. This parameter maps to Env
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the –env
option to docker run. We don’t recommend that you use plaintext environment variables for sensitive information, such as credential data.
name
Type: STRING
Provider name: name
Description: The name of the key-value pair. For environment variables, this is the name of the environment variable.
value
Type: STRING
Provider name: value
Description: The value of the key-value pair. For environment variables, this is the value of the environment variable.
environment_files
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRUCT
Provider name: environmentFiles
Description: A list of files containing the environment variables to pass to a container. This parameter maps to the –env-file
option to docker run. You can specify up to ten environment files. The file must have a .env
file extension. Each line in an environment file contains an environment variable in VARIABLE=VALUE
format. Lines beginning with #
are treated as comments and are ignored. For more information about the environment variable file syntax, see Declare default environment variables in file. If there are environment variables specified using the environment
parameter in a container definition, they take precedence over the variables contained within an environment file. If multiple environment files are specified that contain the same variable, they’re processed from the top down. We recommend that you use unique variable names. For more information, see Specifying Environment Variables in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide.
type
Type: STRING
Provider name: type
Description: The file type to use. Environment files are objects in Amazon S3. The only supported value is s3
.
value
Type: STRING
Provider name: value
Description: The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the Amazon S3 object containing the environment variable file.
essential
Type: BOOLEAN
Provider name: essential
Description: If the essential
parameter of a container is marked as true
, and that container fails or stops for any reason, all other containers that are part of the task are stopped. If the essential
parameter of a container is marked as false
, its failure doesn’t affect the rest of the containers in a task. If this parameter is omitted, a container is assumed to be essential. All tasks must have at least one essential container. If you have an application that’s composed of multiple containers, group containers that are used for a common purpose into components, and separate the different components into multiple task definitions. For more information, see Application Architecture in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide.
extra_hosts
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRUCT
Provider name: extraHosts
Description: A list of hostnames and IP address mappings to append to the /etc/hosts
file on the container. This parameter maps to ExtraHosts
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the –add-host
option to docker run. This parameter isn’t supported for Windows containers or tasks that use the awsvpc
network mode.
hostname
Type: STRING
Provider name: hostname
Description: The hostname to use in the /etc/hosts
entry.
ip_address
Type: STRING
Provider name: ipAddress
Description: The IP address to use in the /etc/hosts
entry.
firelens_configuration
Type: STRUCT
Provider name: firelensConfiguration
Description: The FireLens configuration for the container. This is used to specify and configure a log router for container logs. For more information, see Custom Log Routing in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide.
options
Type: MAP_STRING_STRING
Provider name: options
Description: The options to use when configuring the log router. This field is optional and can be used to specify a custom configuration file or to add additional metadata, such as the task, task definition, cluster, and container instance details to the log event. If specified, the syntax to use is “options”:{“enable-ecs-log-metadata”:“true|false”,“config-file-type:“s3|file”,“config-file-value”:“arn:aws:s3:::mybucket/fluent.conf|filepath”}
. For more information, see Creating a task definition that uses a FireLens configuration in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide. Tasks hosted on Fargate only support the file
configuration file type.
type
Type: STRING
Provider name: type
Description: The log router to use. The valid values are fluentd
or fluentbit
.
health_check
Type: STRUCT
Provider name: healthCheck
Description: The container health check command and associated configuration parameters for the container. This parameter maps to HealthCheck
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the HEALTHCHECK
parameter of docker run.
command
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRING
Provider name: command
Description: A string array representing the command that the container runs to determine if it is healthy. The string array must start with CMD
to run the command arguments directly, or CMD-SHELL
to run the command with the container’s default shell. When you use the Amazon Web Services Management Console JSON panel, the Command Line Interface, or the APIs, enclose the list of commands in double quotes and brackets. [ “CMD-SHELL”, “curl -f http://localhost/ || exit 1” ]
You don’t include the double quotes and brackets when you use the Amazon Web Services Management Console. CMD-SHELL, curl -f http://localhost/ || exit 1
An exit code of 0 indicates success, and non-zero exit code indicates failure. For more information, see HealthCheck
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API.
interval
Type: INT32
Provider name: interval
Description: The time period in seconds between each health check execution. You may specify between 5 and 300 seconds. The default value is 30 seconds.
retries
Type: INT32
Provider name: retries
Description: The number of times to retry a failed health check before the container is considered unhealthy. You may specify between 1 and 10 retries. The default value is 3.
start_period
Type: INT32
Provider name: startPeriod
Description: The optional grace period to provide containers time to bootstrap before failed health checks count towards the maximum number of retries. You can specify between 0 and 300 seconds. By default, the startPeriod
is off. If a health check succeeds within the startPeriod
, then the container is considered healthy and any subsequent failures count toward the maximum number of retries.
timeout
Type: INT32
Provider name: timeout
Description: The time period in seconds to wait for a health check to succeed before it is considered a failure. You may specify between 2 and 60 seconds. The default value is 5.
hostname
Type: STRING
Provider name: hostname
Description: The hostname to use for your container. This parameter maps to Hostname
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the –hostname
option to docker run. The hostname
parameter is not supported if you’re using the awsvpc
network mode.
image
Type: STRING
Provider name: image
Description: The image used to start a container. This string is passed directly to the Docker daemon. By default, images in the Docker Hub registry are available. Other repositories are specified with either repository-url/image:tag
or repository-url/image@digest
. Up to 255 letters (uppercase and lowercase), numbers, hyphens, underscores, colons, periods, forward slashes, and number signs are allowed. This parameter maps to Image
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the IMAGE
parameter of docker run.- When a new task starts, the Amazon ECS container agent pulls the latest version of the specified image and tag for the container to use. However, subsequent updates to a repository image aren’t propagated to already running tasks.
- Images in Amazon ECR repositories can be specified by either using the full
registry/repository:tag
or registry/repository@digest
. For example, 012345678910.dkr.ecr.<region-name>.amazonaws.com/<repository-name>:latest
or 012345678910.dkr.ecr.<region-name>.amazonaws.com/<repository-name>@sha256:94afd1f2e64d908bc90dbca0035a5b567EXAMPLE
. - Images in official repositories on Docker Hub use a single name (for example,
ubuntu
or mongo
). - Images in other repositories on Docker Hub are qualified with an organization name (for example,
amazon/amazon-ecs-agent
). - Images in other online repositories are qualified further by a domain name (for example,
quay.io/assemblyline/ubuntu
).
interactive
Type: BOOLEAN
Provider name: interactive
Description: When this parameter is true
, you can deploy containerized applications that require stdin
or a tty
to be allocated. This parameter maps to OpenStdin
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the –interactive
option to docker run.
links
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRING
Provider name: links
Description: The links
parameter allows containers to communicate with each other without the need for port mappings. This parameter is only supported if the network mode of a task definition is bridge
. The name:internalName
construct is analogous to name:alias
in Docker links. Up to 255 letters (uppercase and lowercase), numbers, underscores, and hyphens are allowed. For more information about linking Docker containers, go to Legacy container links in the Docker documentation. This parameter maps to Links
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the –link
option to docker run. This parameter is not supported for Windows containers. Containers that are collocated on a single container instance may be able to communicate with each other without requiring links or host port mappings. Network isolation is achieved on the container instance using security groups and VPC settings.
linux_parameters
Type: STRUCT
Provider name: linuxParameters
Description: Linux-specific modifications that are applied to the container, such as Linux kernel capabilities. For more information see KernelCapabilities. This parameter is not supported for Windows containers.
capabilities
Type: STRUCT
Provider name: capabilities
Description: The Linux capabilities for the container that are added to or dropped from the default configuration provided by Docker. For tasks that use the Fargate launch type, capabilities
is supported for all platform versions but the add
parameter is only supported if using platform version 1.4.0 or later.
add
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRING
Provider name: add
Description: The Linux capabilities for the container that have been added to the default configuration provided by Docker. This parameter maps to CapAdd
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the –cap-add
option to docker run. Tasks launched on Fargate only support adding the SYS_PTRACE
kernel capability. Valid values: “ALL” | “AUDIT_CONTROL” | “AUDIT_WRITE” | “BLOCK_SUSPEND” | “CHOWN” | “DAC_OVERRIDE” | “DAC_READ_SEARCH” | “FOWNER” | “FSETID” | “IPC_LOCK” | “IPC_OWNER” | “KILL” | “LEASE” | “LINUX_IMMUTABLE” | “MAC_ADMIN” | “MAC_OVERRIDE” | “MKNOD” | “NET_ADMIN” | “NET_BIND_SERVICE” | “NET_BROADCAST” | “NET_RAW” | “SETFCAP” | “SETGID” | “SETPCAP” | “SETUID” | “SYS_ADMIN” | “SYS_BOOT” | “SYS_CHROOT” | “SYS_MODULE” | “SYS_NICE” | “SYS_PACCT” | “SYS_PTRACE” | “SYS_RAWIO” | “SYS_RESOURCE” | “SYS_TIME” | “SYS_TTY_CONFIG” | “SYSLOG” | “WAKE_ALARM”
drop
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRING
Provider name: drop
Description: The Linux capabilities for the container that have been removed from the default configuration provided by Docker. This parameter maps to CapDrop
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the –cap-drop
option to docker run. Valid values: “ALL” | “AUDIT_CONTROL” | “AUDIT_WRITE” | “BLOCK_SUSPEND” | “CHOWN” | “DAC_OVERRIDE” | “DAC_READ_SEARCH” | “FOWNER” | “FSETID” | “IPC_LOCK” | “IPC_OWNER” | “KILL” | “LEASE” | “LINUX_IMMUTABLE” | “MAC_ADMIN” | “MAC_OVERRIDE” | “MKNOD” | “NET_ADMIN” | “NET_BIND_SERVICE” | “NET_BROADCAST” | “NET_RAW” | “SETFCAP” | “SETGID” | “SETPCAP” | “SETUID” | “SYS_ADMIN” | “SYS_BOOT” | “SYS_CHROOT” | “SYS_MODULE” | “SYS_NICE” | “SYS_PACCT” | “SYS_PTRACE” | “SYS_RAWIO” | “SYS_RESOURCE” | “SYS_TIME” | “SYS_TTY_CONFIG” | “SYSLOG” | “WAKE_ALARM”
devices
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRUCT
Provider name: devices
Description: Any host devices to expose to the container. This parameter maps to Devices
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the –device
option to docker run. If you’re using tasks that use the Fargate launch type, the devices
parameter isn’t supported.
container_path
Type: STRING
Provider name: containerPath
Description: The path inside the container at which to expose the host device.
host_path
Type: STRING
Provider name: hostPath
Description: The path for the device on the host container instance.
permissions
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRING
Provider name: permissions
Description: The explicit permissions to provide to the container for the device. By default, the container has permissions for read
, write
, and mknod
for the device.
init_process_enabled
Type: BOOLEAN
Provider name: initProcessEnabled
Description: Run an init
process inside the container that forwards signals and reaps processes. This parameter maps to the –init
option to docker run. This parameter requires version 1.25 of the Docker Remote API or greater on your container instance. To check the Docker Remote API version on your container instance, log in to your container instance and run the following command: sudo docker version –format ‘{{.Server.APIVersion}}’
max_swap
Type: INT32
Provider name: maxSwap
Description: The total amount of swap memory (in MiB) a container can use. This parameter will be translated to the –memory-swap
option to docker run where the value would be the sum of the container memory plus the maxSwap
value. If a maxSwap
value of 0
is specified, the container will not use swap. Accepted values are 0
or any positive integer. If the maxSwap
parameter is omitted, the container will use the swap configuration for the container instance it is running on. A maxSwap
value must be set for the swappiness
parameter to be used. If you’re using tasks that use the Fargate launch type, the maxSwap
parameter isn’t supported. If you’re using tasks on Amazon Linux 2023 the swappiness
parameter isn’t supported.
shared_memory_size
Type: INT32
Provider name: sharedMemorySize
Description: The value for the size (in MiB) of the /dev/shm
volume. This parameter maps to the –shm-size
option to docker run. If you are using tasks that use the Fargate launch type, the sharedMemorySize
parameter is not supported.
swappiness
Type: INT32
Provider name: swappiness
Description: This allows you to tune a container’s memory swappiness behavior. A swappiness
value of 0
will cause swapping to not happen unless absolutely necessary. A swappiness
value of 100
will cause pages to be swapped very aggressively. Accepted values are whole numbers between 0
and 100
. If the swappiness
parameter is not specified, a default value of 60
is used. If a value is not specified for maxSwap
then this parameter is ignored. This parameter maps to the –memory-swappiness
option to docker run. If you’re using tasks that use the Fargate launch type, the swappiness
parameter isn’t supported. If you’re using tasks on Amazon Linux 2023 the swappiness
parameter isn’t supported.
tmpfs
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRUCT
Provider name: tmpfs
Description: The container path, mount options, and size (in MiB) of the tmpfs mount. This parameter maps to the –tmpfs
option to docker run. If you’re using tasks that use the Fargate launch type, the tmpfs
parameter isn’t supported.
container_path
Type: STRING
Provider name: containerPath
Description: The absolute file path where the tmpfs volume is to be mounted.
mount_options
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRING
Provider name: mountOptions
Description: The list of tmpfs volume mount options. Valid values: “defaults” | “ro” | “rw” | “suid” | “nosuid” | “dev” | “nodev” | “exec” | “noexec” | “sync” | “async” | “dirsync” | “remount” | “mand” | “nomand” | “atime” | “noatime” | “diratime” | “nodiratime” | “bind” | “rbind” | “unbindable” | “runbindable” | “private” | “rprivate” | “shared” | “rshared” | “slave” | “rslave” | “relatime” | “norelatime” | “strictatime” | “nostrictatime” | “mode” | “uid” | “gid” | “nr_inodes” | “nr_blocks” | “mpol”
size
Type: INT32
Provider name: size
Description: The maximum size (in MiB) of the tmpfs volume.
log_configuration
Type: STRUCT
Provider name: logConfiguration
Description: The log configuration specification for the container. This parameter maps to LogConfig
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the –log-driver
option to docker run. By default, containers use the same logging driver that the Docker daemon uses. However the container can use a different logging driver than the Docker daemon by specifying a log driver with this parameter in the container definition. To use a different logging driver for a container, the log system must be configured properly on the container instance (or on a different log server for remote logging options). For more information about the options for different supported log drivers, see Configure logging drivers in the Docker documentation. Amazon ECS currently supports a subset of the logging drivers available to the Docker daemon (shown in the LogConfiguration data type). Additional log drivers may be available in future releases of the Amazon ECS container agent. This parameter requires version 1.18 of the Docker Remote API or greater on your container instance. To check the Docker Remote API version on your container instance, log in to your container instance and run the following command: sudo docker version –format ‘{{.Server.APIVersion}}’
The Amazon ECS container agent running on a container instance must register the logging drivers available on that instance with the ECS_AVAILABLE_LOGGING_DRIVERS
environment variable before containers placed on that instance can use these log configuration options. For more information, see Amazon ECS Container Agent Configuration in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide.
log_driver
Type: STRING
Provider name: logDriver
Description: The log driver to use for the container. For tasks on Fargate, the supported log drivers are awslogs
, splunk
, and awsfirelens
. For tasks hosted on Amazon EC2 instances, the supported log drivers are awslogs
, fluentd
, gelf
, json-file
, journald
, logentries
,syslog
, splunk
, and awsfirelens
. For more information about using the awslogs
log driver, see Using the awslogs log driver in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide. For more information about using the awsfirelens
log driver, see Custom log routing in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide. If you have a custom driver that isn’t listed, you can fork the Amazon ECS container agent project that’s available on GitHub and customize it to work with that driver. We encourage you to submit pull requests for changes that you would like to have included. However, we don’t currently provide support for running modified copies of this software.
options
Type: MAP_STRING_STRING
Provider name: options
Description: The configuration options to send to the log driver. This parameter requires version 1.19 of the Docker Remote API or greater on your container instance. To check the Docker Remote API version on your container instance, log in to your container instance and run the following command: sudo docker version –format ‘{{.Server.APIVersion}}’
secret_options
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRUCT
Provider name: secretOptions
Description: The secrets to pass to the log configuration. For more information, see Specifying sensitive data in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide.
name
Type: STRING
Provider name: name
Description: The name of the secret.
value_from
Type: STRING
Provider name: valueFrom
Description: The secret to expose to the container. The supported values are either the full ARN of the Secrets Manager secret or the full ARN of the parameter in the SSM Parameter Store. For information about the require Identity and Access Management permissions, see Required IAM permissions for Amazon ECS secrets (for Secrets Manager) or Required IAM permissions for Amazon ECS secrets (for Systems Manager Parameter store) in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide. If the SSM Parameter Store parameter exists in the same Region as the task you’re launching, then you can use either the full ARN or name of the parameter. If the parameter exists in a different Region, then the full ARN must be specified.
memory
Type: INT32
Provider name: memory
Description: The amount (in MiB) of memory to present to the container. If your container attempts to exceed the memory specified here, the container is killed. The total amount of memory reserved for all containers within a task must be lower than the task memory
value, if one is specified. This parameter maps to Memory
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the –memory
option to docker run. If using the Fargate launch type, this parameter is optional. If using the EC2 launch type, you must specify either a task-level memory value or a container-level memory value. If you specify both a container-level memory
and memoryReservation
value, memory
must be greater than memoryReservation
. If you specify memoryReservation
, then that value is subtracted from the available memory resources for the container instance where the container is placed. Otherwise, the value of memory
is used. The Docker 20.10.0 or later daemon reserves a minimum of 6 MiB of memory for a container. So, don’t specify less than 6 MiB of memory for your containers. The Docker 19.03.13-ce or earlier daemon reserves a minimum of 4 MiB of memory for a container. So, don’t specify less than 4 MiB of memory for your containers.
memory_reservation
Type: INT32
Provider name: memoryReservation
Description: The soft limit (in MiB) of memory to reserve for the container. When system memory is under heavy contention, Docker attempts to keep the container memory to this soft limit. However, your container can consume more memory when it needs to, up to either the hard limit specified with the memory
parameter (if applicable), or all of the available memory on the container instance, whichever comes first. This parameter maps to MemoryReservation
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the –memory-reservation
option to docker run. If a task-level memory value is not specified, you must specify a non-zero integer for one or both of memory
or memoryReservation
in a container definition. If you specify both, memory
must be greater than memoryReservation
. If you specify memoryReservation
, then that value is subtracted from the available memory resources for the container instance where the container is placed. Otherwise, the value of memory
is used. For example, if your container normally uses 128 MiB of memory, but occasionally bursts to 256 MiB of memory for short periods of time, you can set a memoryReservation
of 128 MiB, and a memory
hard limit of 300 MiB. This configuration would allow the container to only reserve 128 MiB of memory from the remaining resources on the container instance, but also allow the container to consume more memory resources when needed. The Docker 20.10.0 or later daemon reserves a minimum of 6 MiB of memory for a container. So, don’t specify less than 6 MiB of memory for your containers. The Docker 19.03.13-ce or earlier daemon reserves a minimum of 4 MiB of memory for a container. So, don’t specify less than 4 MiB of memory for your containers.
mount_points
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRUCT
Provider name: mountPoints
Description: The mount points for data volumes in your container. This parameter maps to Volumes
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the –volume
option to docker run. Windows containers can mount whole directories on the same drive as $env:ProgramData
. Windows containers can’t mount directories on a different drive, and mount point can’t be across drives.
container_path
Type: STRING
Provider name: containerPath
Description: The path on the container to mount the host volume at.
read_only
Type: BOOLEAN
Provider name: readOnly
Description: If this value is true
, the container has read-only access to the volume. If this value is false
, then the container can write to the volume. The default value is false
.
source_volume
Type: STRING
Provider name: sourceVolume
Description: The name of the volume to mount. Must be a volume name referenced in the name
parameter of task definition volume
.
name
Type: STRING
Provider name: name
Description: The name of a container. If you’re linking multiple containers together in a task definition, the name
of one container can be entered in the links
of another container to connect the containers. Up to 255 letters (uppercase and lowercase), numbers, underscores, and hyphens are allowed. This parameter maps to name
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the –name
option to docker run.
port_mappings
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRUCT
Provider name: portMappings
Description: The list of port mappings for the container. Port mappings allow containers to access ports on the host container instance to send or receive traffic. For task definitions that use the awsvpc
network mode, only specify the containerPort
. The hostPort
can be left blank or it must be the same value as the containerPort
. Port mappings on Windows use the NetNAT
gateway address rather than localhost
. There’s no loopback for port mappings on Windows, so you can’t access a container’s mapped port from the host itself. This parameter maps to PortBindings
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the –publish
option to docker run. If the network mode of a task definition is set to none
, then you can’t specify port mappings. If the network mode of a task definition is set to host
, then host ports must either be undefined or they must match the container port in the port mapping. After a task reaches the RUNNING
status, manual and automatic host and container port assignments are visible in the Network Bindings section of a container description for a selected task in the Amazon ECS console. The assignments are also visible in the networkBindings
section DescribeTasks responses.
app_protocol
Type: STRING
Provider name: appProtocol
Description: The application protocol that’s used for the port mapping. This parameter only applies to Service Connect. We recommend that you set this parameter to be consistent with the protocol that your application uses. If you set this parameter, Amazon ECS adds protocol-specific connection handling to the Service Connect proxy. If you set this parameter, Amazon ECS adds protocol-specific telemetry in the Amazon ECS console and CloudWatch. If you don’t set a value for this parameter, then TCP is used. However, Amazon ECS doesn’t add protocol-specific telemetry for TCP. appProtocol
is immutable in a Service Connect service. Updating this field requires a service deletion and redeployment. Tasks that run in a namespace can use short names to connect to services in the namespace. Tasks can connect to services across all of the clusters in the namespace. Tasks connect through a managed proxy container that collects logs and metrics for increased visibility. Only the tasks that Amazon ECS services create are supported with Service Connect. For more information, see Service Connect in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide.
container_port
Type: INT32
Provider name: containerPort
Description: The port number on the container that’s bound to the user-specified or automatically assigned host port. If you use containers in a task with the awsvpc
or host
network mode, specify the exposed ports using containerPort
. If you use containers in a task with the bridge
network mode and you specify a container port and not a host port, your container automatically receives a host port in the ephemeral port range. For more information, see hostPort
. Port mappings that are automatically assigned in this way do not count toward the 100 reserved ports limit of a container instance.
container_port_range
Type: STRING
Provider name: containerPortRange
Description: The port number range on the container that’s bound to the dynamically mapped host port range. The following rules apply when you specify a containerPortRange
:- You must use either the
bridge
network mode or the awsvpc
network mode. - This parameter is available for both the EC2 and Fargate launch types.
- This parameter is available for both the Linux and Windows operating systems.
- The container instance must have at least version 1.67.0 of the container agent and at least version 1.67.0-1 of the
ecs-init
package - You can specify a maximum of 100 port ranges per container.
- You do not specify a
hostPortRange
. The value of the hostPortRange
is set as follows:- For containers in a task with the
awsvpc
network mode, the hostPortRange
is set to the same value as the containerPortRange
. This is a static mapping strategy. - For containers in a task with the
bridge
network mode, the Amazon ECS agent finds open host ports from the default ephemeral range and passes it to docker to bind them to the container ports.
- The
containerPortRange
valid values are between 1 and 65535. - A port can only be included in one port mapping per container.
- You cannot specify overlapping port ranges.
- The first port in the range must be less than last port in the range.
- Docker recommends that you turn off the docker-proxy in the Docker daemon config file when you have a large number of ports. For more information, see Issue #11185 on the Github website. For information about how to turn off the docker-proxy in the Docker daemon config file, see Docker daemon in the Amazon ECS Developer Guide.
You can call DescribeTasks
to view the hostPortRange
which are the host ports that are bound to the container ports.
host_port
Type: INT32
Provider name: hostPort
Description: The port number on the container instance to reserve for your container. If you specify a containerPortRange
, leave this field empty and the value of the hostPort
is set as follows:- For containers in a task with the
awsvpc
network mode, the hostPort
is set to the same value as the containerPort
. This is a static mapping strategy. - For containers in a task with the
bridge
network mode, the Amazon ECS agent finds open ports on the host and automatically binds them to the container ports. This is a dynamic mapping strategy.
If you use containers in a task with the awsvpc
or host
network mode, the hostPort
can either be left blank or set to the same value as the containerPort
. If you use containers in a task with the bridge
network mode, you can specify a non-reserved host port for your container port mapping, or you can omit the hostPort
(or set it to 0
) while specifying a containerPort
and your container automatically receives a port in the ephemeral port range for your container instance operating system and Docker version. The default ephemeral port range for Docker version 1.6.0 and later is listed on the instance under /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
. If this kernel parameter is unavailable, the default ephemeral port range from 49153 through 65535 (Linux) or 49152 through 65535 (Windows) is used. Do not attempt to specify a host port in the ephemeral port range as these are reserved for automatic assignment. In general, ports below 32768 are outside of the ephemeral port range. The default reserved ports are 22 for SSH, the Docker ports 2375 and 2376, and the Amazon ECS container agent ports 51678-51680. Any host port that was previously specified in a running task is also reserved while the task is running. That is, after a task stops, the host port is released. The current reserved ports are displayed in the remainingResources
of DescribeContainerInstances output. A container instance can have up to 100 reserved ports at a time. This number includes the default reserved ports. Automatically assigned ports aren’t included in the 100 reserved ports quota.
name
Type: STRING
Provider name: name
Description: The name that’s used for the port mapping. This parameter only applies to Service Connect. This parameter is the name that you use in the serviceConnectConfiguration
of a service. The name can include up to 64 characters. The characters can include lowercase letters, numbers, underscores (_), and hyphens (-). The name can’t start with a hyphen. For more information, see Service Connect in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide.
protocol
Type: STRING
Provider name: protocol
Description: The protocol used for the port mapping. Valid values are tcp
and udp
. The default is tcp
. protocol
is immutable in a Service Connect service. Updating this field requires a service deletion and redeployment.
privileged
Type: BOOLEAN
Provider name: privileged
Description: When this parameter is true, the container is given elevated privileges on the host container instance (similar to the root
user). This parameter maps to Privileged
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the –privileged
option to docker run. This parameter is not supported for Windows containers or tasks run on Fargate.
pseudo_terminal
Type: BOOLEAN
Provider name: pseudoTerminal
Description: When this parameter is true
, a TTY is allocated. This parameter maps to Tty
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the –tty
option to docker run.
readonly_root_filesystem
Type: BOOLEAN
Provider name: readonlyRootFilesystem
Description: When this parameter is true, the container is given read-only access to its root file system. This parameter maps to ReadonlyRootfs
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the –read-only
option to docker run. This parameter is not supported for Windows containers.
repository_credentials
Type: STRUCT
Provider name: repositoryCredentials
Description: The private repository authentication credentials to use.
credentials_parameter
Type: STRING
Provider name: credentialsParameter
Description: The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the secret containing the private repository credentials. When you use the Amazon ECS API, CLI, or Amazon Web Services SDK, if the secret exists in the same Region as the task that you’re launching then you can use either the full ARN or the name of the secret. When you use the Amazon Web Services Management Console, you must specify the full ARN of the secret.
resource_requirements
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRUCT
Provider name: resourceRequirements
Description: The type and amount of a resource to assign to a container. The only supported resource is a GPU.
type
Type: STRING
Provider name: type
Description: The type of resource to assign to a container.
value
Type: STRING
Provider name: value
Description: The value for the specified resource type. When the type is GPU
, the value is the number of physical GPUs
the Amazon ECS container agent reserves for the container. The number of GPUs that’s reserved for all containers in a task can’t exceed the number of available GPUs on the container instance that the task is launched on. When the type is InferenceAccelerator
, the value
matches the deviceName
for an InferenceAccelerator specified in a task definition.
secrets
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRUCT
Provider name: secrets
Description: The secrets to pass to the container. For more information, see Specifying Sensitive Data in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide.
name
Type: STRING
Provider name: name
Description: The name of the secret.
value_from
Type: STRING
Provider name: valueFrom
Description: The secret to expose to the container. The supported values are either the full ARN of the Secrets Manager secret or the full ARN of the parameter in the SSM Parameter Store. For information about the require Identity and Access Management permissions, see Required IAM permissions for Amazon ECS secrets (for Secrets Manager) or Required IAM permissions for Amazon ECS secrets (for Systems Manager Parameter store) in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide. If the SSM Parameter Store parameter exists in the same Region as the task you’re launching, then you can use either the full ARN or name of the parameter. If the parameter exists in a different Region, then the full ARN must be specified.
start_timeout
Type: INT32
Provider name: startTimeout
Description: Time duration (in seconds) to wait before giving up on resolving dependencies for a container. For example, you specify two containers in a task definition with containerA having a dependency on containerB reaching a COMPLETE
, SUCCESS
, or HEALTHY
status. If a startTimeout
value is specified for containerB and it doesn’t reach the desired status within that time then containerA gives up and not start. This results in the task transitioning to a STOPPED
state. When the ECS_CONTAINER_START_TIMEOUT
container agent configuration variable is used, it’s enforced independently from this start timeout value. For tasks using the Fargate launch type, the task or service requires the following platforms:- Linux platform version
1.3.0
or later. - Windows platform version
1.0.0
or later.
For tasks using the EC2 launch type, your container instances require at least version 1.26.0
of the container agent to use a container start timeout value. However, we recommend using the latest container agent version. For information about checking your agent version and updating to the latest version, see Updating the Amazon ECS Container Agent in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide. If you’re using an Amazon ECS-optimized Linux AMI, your instance needs at least version 1.26.0-1
of the ecs-init
package. If your container instances are launched from version 20190301
or later, then they contain the required versions of the container agent and ecs-init
. For more information, see Amazon ECS-optimized Linux AMI in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide. The valid values are 2-120 seconds.
stop_timeout
Type: INT32
Provider name: stopTimeout
Description: Time duration (in seconds) to wait before the container is forcefully killed if it doesn’t exit normally on its own. For tasks using the Fargate launch type, the task or service requires the following platforms:- Linux platform version
1.3.0
or later. - Windows platform version
1.0.0
or later.
The max stop timeout value is 120 seconds and if the parameter is not specified, the default value of 30 seconds is used. For tasks that use the EC2 launch type, if the stopTimeout
parameter isn’t specified, the value set for the Amazon ECS container agent configuration variable ECS_CONTAINER_STOP_TIMEOUT
is used. If neither the stopTimeout
parameter or the ECS_CONTAINER_STOP_TIMEOUT
agent configuration variable are set, then the default values of 30 seconds for Linux containers and 30 seconds on Windows containers are used. Your container instances require at least version 1.26.0 of the container agent to use a container stop timeout value. However, we recommend using the latest container agent version. For information about checking your agent version and updating to the latest version, see Updating the Amazon ECS Container Agent in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide. If you’re using an Amazon ECS-optimized Linux AMI, your instance needs at least version 1.26.0-1 of the ecs-init
package. If your container instances are launched from version 20190301
or later, then they contain the required versions of the container agent and ecs-init
. For more information, see Amazon ECS-optimized Linux AMI in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide. The valid values are 2-120 seconds.
system_controls
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRUCT
Provider name: systemControls
Description: A list of namespaced kernel parameters to set in the container. This parameter maps to Sysctls
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the –sysctl
option to docker run. For example, you can configure net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time
setting to maintain longer lived connections.
namespace
Type: STRING
Provider name: namespace
Description: The namespaced kernel parameter to set a value
for.
value
Type: STRING
Provider name: value
Description: The namespaced kernel parameter to set a value
for. Valid IPC namespace values: “kernel.msgmax” | “kernel.msgmnb” | “kernel.msgmni” | “kernel.sem” | “kernel.shmall” | “kernel.shmmax” | “kernel.shmmni” | “kernel.shm_rmid_forced”
, and Sysctls
that start with “fs.mqueue."
Valid network namespace values: Sysctls
that start with “net."
All of these values are supported by Fargate.
ulimits
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRUCT
Provider name: ulimits
Description: A list of ulimits
to set in the container. If a ulimit
value is specified in a task definition, it overrides the default values set by Docker. This parameter maps to Ulimits
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the –ulimit
option to docker run. Valid naming values are displayed in the Ulimit data type. Amazon ECS tasks hosted on Fargate use the default resource limit values set by the operating system with the exception of the nofile
resource limit parameter which Fargate overrides. The nofile
resource limit sets a restriction on the number of open files that a container can use. The default nofile
soft limit is 1024
and the default hard limit is 65535
. This parameter requires version 1.18 of the Docker Remote API or greater on your container instance. To check the Docker Remote API version on your container instance, log in to your container instance and run the following command: sudo docker version –format ‘{{.Server.APIVersion}}’
This parameter is not supported for Windows containers.
hard_limit
Type: INT32
Provider name: hardLimit
Description: The hard limit for the ulimit
type.
name
Type: STRING
Provider name: name
Description: The type
of the ulimit
.
soft_limit
Type: INT32
Provider name: softLimit
Description: The soft limit for the ulimit
type.
user
Type: STRING
Provider name: user
Description: The user to use inside the container. This parameter maps to User
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the –user
option to docker run. When running tasks using the host
network mode, don’t run containers using the root user (UID 0). We recommend using a non-root user for better security. You can specify the user
using the following formats. If specifying a UID or GID, you must specify it as a positive integer.user
user:group
uid
uid:gid
user:gid
uid:group
This parameter is not supported for Windows containers.
volumes_from
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRUCT
Provider name: volumesFrom
Description: Data volumes to mount from another container. This parameter maps to VolumesFrom
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the –volumes-from
option to docker run.
read_only
Type: BOOLEAN
Provider name: readOnly
Description: If this value is true
, the container has read-only access to the volume. If this value is false
, then the container can write to the volume. The default value is false
.
source_container
Type: STRING
Provider name: sourceContainer
Description: The name of another container within the same task definition to mount volumes from.
working_directory
Type: STRING
Provider name: workingDirectory
Description: The working directory to run commands inside the container in. This parameter maps to WorkingDir
in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the –workdir
option to docker run.
cpu
Type: STRING
Provider name: cpu
Description: The number of cpu
units used by the task. If you use the EC2 launch type, this field is optional. Any value can be used. If you use the Fargate launch type, this field is required. You must use one of the following values. The value that you choose determines your range of valid values for the memory
parameter. The CPU units cannot be less than 1 vCPU when you use Windows containers on Fargate.
- 256 (.25 vCPU) - Available
memory
values: 512 (0.5 GB), 1024 (1 GB), 2048 (2 GB) - 512 (.5 vCPU) - Available
memory
values: 1024 (1 GB), 2048 (2 GB), 3072 (3 GB), 4096 (4 GB) - 1024 (1 vCPU) - Available
memory
values: 2048 (2 GB), 3072 (3 GB), 4096 (4 GB), 5120 (5 GB), 6144 (6 GB), 7168 (7 GB), 8192 (8 GB) - 2048 (2 vCPU) - Available
memory
values: 4096 (4 GB) and 16384 (16 GB) in increments of 1024 (1 GB) - 4096 (4 vCPU) - Available
memory
values: 8192 (8 GB) and 30720 (30 GB) in increments of 1024 (1 GB) - 8192 (8 vCPU) - Available
memory
values: 16 GB and 60 GB in 4 GB increments This option requires Linux platform 1.4.0
or later. - 16384 (16vCPU) - Available
memory
values: 32GB and 120 GB in 8 GB increments This option requires Linux platform 1.4.0
or later.
deregistered_at
Type: TIMESTAMP
Provider name: deregisteredAt
Description: The Unix timestamp for the time when the task definition was deregistered.
ephemeral_storage
Type: STRUCT
Provider name: ephemeralStorage
Description: The ephemeral storage settings to use for tasks run with the task definition.
size_in_gib
Type: INT32
Provider name: sizeInGiB
Description: The total amount, in GiB, of ephemeral storage to set for the task. The minimum supported value is 20
GiB and the maximum supported value is 200
GiB.
execution_role_arn
Type: STRING
Provider name: executionRoleArn
Description: The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the task execution role that grants the Amazon ECS container agent permission to make Amazon Web Services API calls on your behalf. The task execution IAM role is required depending on the requirements of your task. For more information, see Amazon ECS task execution IAM role in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide.
family
Type: STRING
Provider name: family
Description: The name of a family that this task definition is registered to. Up to 255 characters are allowed. Letters (both uppercase and lowercase letters), numbers, hyphens (-), and underscores (_) are allowed. A family groups multiple versions of a task definition. Amazon ECS gives the first task definition that you registered to a family a revision number of 1. Amazon ECS gives sequential revision numbers to each task definition that you add.
inference_accelerators
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRUCT
Provider name: inferenceAccelerators
Description: The Elastic Inference accelerator that’s associated with the task.
device_name
Type: STRING
Provider name: deviceName
Description: The Elastic Inference accelerator device name. The deviceName
must also be referenced in a container definition as a ResourceRequirement.
device_type
Type: STRING
Provider name: deviceType
Description: The Elastic Inference accelerator type to use.
ipc_mode
Type: STRING
Provider name: ipcMode
Description: The IPC resource namespace to use for the containers in the task. The valid values are host
, task
, or none
. If host
is specified, then all containers within the tasks that specified the host
IPC mode on the same container instance share the same IPC resources with the host Amazon EC2 instance. If task
is specified, all containers within the specified task share the same IPC resources. If none
is specified, then IPC resources within the containers of a task are private and not shared with other containers in a task or on the container instance. If no value is specified, then the IPC resource namespace sharing depends on the Docker daemon setting on the container instance. For more information, see IPC settings in the Docker run reference. If the host
IPC mode is used, be aware that there is a heightened risk of undesired IPC namespace expose. For more information, see Docker security. If you are setting namespaced kernel parameters using systemControls
for the containers in the task, the following will apply to your IPC resource namespace. For more information, see System Controls in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide.
- For tasks that use the
host
IPC mode, IPC namespace related systemControls
are not supported. - For tasks that use the
task
IPC mode, IPC namespace related systemControls
will apply to all containers within a task.
This parameter is not supported for Windows containers or tasks run on Fargate.memory
Type: STRING
Provider name: memory
Description: The amount (in MiB) of memory used by the task. If your tasks runs on Amazon EC2 instances, you must specify either a task-level memory value or a container-level memory value. This field is optional and any value can be used. If a task-level memory value is specified, the container-level memory value is optional. For more information regarding container-level memory and memory reservation, see ContainerDefinition. If your tasks runs on Fargate, this field is required. You must use one of the following values. The value you choose determines your range of valid values for the cpu
parameter.
- 512 (0.5 GB), 1024 (1 GB), 2048 (2 GB) - Available
cpu
values: 256 (.25 vCPU) - 1024 (1 GB), 2048 (2 GB), 3072 (3 GB), 4096 (4 GB) - Available
cpu
values: 512 (.5 vCPU) - 2048 (2 GB), 3072 (3 GB), 4096 (4 GB), 5120 (5 GB), 6144 (6 GB), 7168 (7 GB), 8192 (8 GB) - Available
cpu
values: 1024 (1 vCPU) - Between 4096 (4 GB) and 16384 (16 GB) in increments of 1024 (1 GB) - Available
cpu
values: 2048 (2 vCPU) - Between 8192 (8 GB) and 30720 (30 GB) in increments of 1024 (1 GB) - Available
cpu
values: 4096 (4 vCPU) - Between 16 GB and 60 GB in 4 GB increments - Available
cpu
values: 8192 (8 vCPU) This option requires Linux platform 1.4.0
or later. - Between 32GB and 120 GB in 8 GB increments - Available
cpu
values: 16384 (16 vCPU) This option requires Linux platform 1.4.0
or later.
network_mode
Type: STRING
Provider name: networkMode
Description: The Docker networking mode to use for the containers in the task. The valid values are none
, bridge
, awsvpc
, and host
. If no network mode is specified, the default is bridge
. For Amazon ECS tasks on Fargate, the awsvpc
network mode is required. For Amazon ECS tasks on Amazon EC2 Linux instances, any network mode can be used. For Amazon ECS tasks on Amazon EC2 Windows instances, <default>
or awsvpc
can be used. If the network mode is set to none
, you cannot specify port mappings in your container definitions, and the tasks containers do not have external connectivity. The host
and awsvpc
network modes offer the highest networking performance for containers because they use the EC2 network stack instead of the virtualized network stack provided by the bridge
mode. With the host
and awsvpc
network modes, exposed container ports are mapped directly to the corresponding host port (for the host
network mode) or the attached elastic network interface port (for the awsvpc
network mode), so you cannot take advantage of dynamic host port mappings. When using the host
network mode, you should not run containers using the root user (UID 0). It is considered best practice to use a non-root user. If the network mode is awsvpc
, the task is allocated an elastic network interface, and you must specify a NetworkConfiguration value when you create a service or run a task with the task definition. For more information, see Task Networking in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide. If the network mode is host
, you cannot run multiple instantiations of the same task on a single container instance when port mappings are used. For more information, see Network settings in the Docker run reference.
pid_mode
Type: STRING
Provider name: pidMode
Description: The process namespace to use for the containers in the task. The valid values are host
or task
. On Fargate for Linux containers, the only valid value is task
. For example, monitoring sidecars might need pidMode
to access information about other containers running in the same task. If host
is specified, all containers within the tasks that specified the host
PID mode on the same container instance share the same process namespace with the host Amazon EC2 instance. If task
is specified, all containers within the specified task share the same process namespace. If no value is specified, the default is a private namespace for each container. For more information, see PID settings in the Docker run reference. If the host
PID mode is used, there’s a heightened risk of undesired process namespace exposure. For more information, see Docker security. This parameter is not supported for Windows containers. This parameter is only supported for tasks that are hosted on Fargate if the tasks are using platform version 1.4.0
or later (Linux). This isn’t supported for Windows containers on Fargate.
placement_constraints
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRUCT
Provider name: placementConstraints
Description: An array of placement constraint objects to use for tasks. This parameter isn’t supported for tasks run on Fargate.
expression
Type: STRING
Provider name: expression
Description: A cluster query language expression to apply to the constraint. For more information, see Cluster query language in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide.
type
Type: STRING
Provider name: type
Description: The type of constraint. The MemberOf
constraint restricts selection to be from a group of valid candidates.
proxy_configuration
Type: STRUCT
Provider name: proxyConfiguration
Description: The configuration details for the App Mesh proxy. Your Amazon ECS container instances require at least version 1.26.0 of the container agent and at least version 1.26.0-1 of the ecs-init
package to use a proxy configuration. If your container instances are launched from the Amazon ECS optimized AMI version 20190301
or later, they contain the required versions of the container agent and ecs-init
. For more information, see Amazon ECS-optimized Linux AMI in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide.
container_name
Type: STRING
Provider name: containerName
Description: The name of the container that will serve as the App Mesh proxy.
properties
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRUCT
Provider name: properties
Description: The set of network configuration parameters to provide the Container Network Interface (CNI) plugin, specified as key-value pairs.IgnoredUID
- (Required) The user ID (UID) of the proxy container as defined by the user
parameter in a container definition. This is used to ensure the proxy ignores its own traffic. If IgnoredGID
is specified, this field can be empty.IgnoredGID
- (Required) The group ID (GID) of the proxy container as defined by the user
parameter in a container definition. This is used to ensure the proxy ignores its own traffic. If IgnoredUID
is specified, this field can be empty.AppPorts
- (Required) The list of ports that the application uses. Network traffic to these ports is forwarded to the ProxyIngressPort
and ProxyEgressPort
.ProxyIngressPort
- (Required) Specifies the port that incoming traffic to the AppPorts
is directed to.ProxyEgressPort
- (Required) Specifies the port that outgoing traffic from the AppPorts
is directed to.EgressIgnoredPorts
- (Required) The egress traffic going to the specified ports is ignored and not redirected to the ProxyEgressPort
. It can be an empty list.EgressIgnoredIPs
- (Required) The egress traffic going to the specified IP addresses is ignored and not redirected to the ProxyEgressPort
. It can be an empty list.
name
Type: STRING
Provider name: name
Description: The name of the key-value pair. For environment variables, this is the name of the environment variable.
value
Type: STRING
Provider name: value
Description: The value of the key-value pair. For environment variables, this is the value of the environment variable.
type
Type: STRING
Provider name: type
Description: The proxy type. The only supported value is APPMESH
.
registered_at
Type: TIMESTAMP
Provider name: registeredAt
Description: The Unix timestamp for the time when the task definition was registered.
registered_by
Type: STRING
Provider name: registeredBy
Description: The principal that registered the task definition.
requires_attributes
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRUCT
Provider name: requiresAttributes
Description: The container instance attributes required by your task. When an Amazon EC2 instance is registered to your cluster, the Amazon ECS container agent assigns some standard attributes to the instance. You can apply custom attributes. These are specified as key-value pairs using the Amazon ECS console or the PutAttributes API. These attributes are used when determining task placement for tasks hosted on Amazon EC2 instances. For more information, see Attributes in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide. This parameter isn’t supported for tasks run on Fargate.
name
Type: STRING
Provider name: name
Description: The name of the attribute. The name
must contain between 1 and 128 characters. The name may contain letters (uppercase and lowercase), numbers, hyphens (-), underscores (_), forward slashes (/), back slashes (), or periods (.).
target_id
Type: STRING
Provider name: targetId
Description: The ID of the target. You can specify the short form ID for a resource or the full Amazon Resource Name (ARN).
target_type
Type: STRING
Provider name: targetType
Description: The type of the target to attach the attribute with. This parameter is required if you use the short form ID for a resource instead of the full ARN.
value
Type: STRING
Provider name: value
Description: The value of the attribute. The value
must contain between 1 and 128 characters. It can contain letters (uppercase and lowercase), numbers, hyphens (-), underscores (_), periods (.), at signs (@), forward slashes (/), back slashes (), colons (:), or spaces. The value can’t start or end with a space.
requires_compatibilities
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRING
Provider name: requiresCompatibilities
Description: The task launch types the task definition was validated against. The valid values are EC2
, FARGATE
, and EXTERNAL
. For more information, see Amazon ECS launch types in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide.
revision
Type: INT32
Provider name: revision
Description: The revision of the task in a particular family. The revision is a version number of a task definition in a family. When you register a task definition for the first time, the revision is 1
. Each time that you register a new revision of a task definition in the same family, the revision value always increases by one. This is even if you deregistered previous revisions in this family.
Type: STRUCT
Provider name: runtimePlatform
Description: The operating system that your task definitions are running on. A platform family is specified only for tasks using the Fargate launch type. When you specify a task in a service, this value must match the runtimePlatform
value of the service.
cpu_architecture
Type: STRING
Provider name: cpuArchitecture
Description: The CPU architecture. You can run your Linux tasks on an ARM-based platform by setting the value to ARM64
. This option is available for tasks that run on Linux Amazon EC2 instance or Linux containers on Fargate.
operating_system_family
Type: STRING
Provider name: operatingSystemFamily
Description: The operating system.
status
Type: STRING
Provider name: status
Description: The status of the task definition.
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRING
task_definition_arn
Type: STRING
Provider name: taskDefinitionArn
Description: The full Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the task definition.
task_role_arn
Type: STRING
Provider name: taskRoleArn
Description: The short name or full Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the Identity and Access Management role that grants containers in the task permission to call Amazon Web Services APIs on your behalf. For more information, see Amazon ECS Task Role in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide. IAM roles for tasks on Windows require that the -EnableTaskIAMRole
option is set when you launch the Amazon ECS-optimized Windows AMI. Your containers must also run some configuration code to use the feature. For more information, see Windows IAM roles for tasks in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide.
volumes
Type: UNORDERED_LIST_STRUCT
Provider name: volumes
Description: The list of data volume definitions for the task. For more information, see Using data volumes in tasks in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide. The host
and sourcePath
parameters aren’t supported for tasks run on Fargate.
configured_at_launch
Type: BOOLEAN
Provider name: configuredAtLaunch
Description: Indicates whether the volume should be configured at launch time. This is used to create Amazon EBS volumes for standalone tasks or tasks created as part of a service. Each task definition revision may only have one volume configured at launch in the volume configuration. To configure a volume at launch time, use this task definition revision and specify a volumeConfigurations
object when calling the CreateService
, UpdateService
, RunTask
or StartTask
APIs.
docker_volume_configuration
Type: STRUCT
Provider name: dockerVolumeConfiguration
Description: This parameter is specified when you use Docker volumes. Windows containers only support the use of the local
driver. To use bind mounts, specify the host
parameter instead. Docker volumes aren’t supported by tasks run on Fargate.
autoprovision
Type: BOOLEAN
Provider name: autoprovision
Description: If this value is true
, the Docker volume is created if it doesn’t already exist. This field is only used if the scope
is shared
.
driver
Type: STRING
Provider name: driver
Description: The Docker volume driver to use. The driver value must match the driver name provided by Docker because it is used for task placement. If the driver was installed using the Docker plugin CLI, use docker plugin ls
to retrieve the driver name from your container instance. If the driver was installed using another method, use Docker plugin discovery to retrieve the driver name. For more information, see Docker plugin discovery. This parameter maps to Driver
in the Create a volume section of the Docker Remote API and the xxdriver
option to docker volume create.
driver_opts
Type: MAP_STRING_STRING
Provider name: driverOpts
Description: A map of Docker driver-specific options passed through. This parameter maps to DriverOpts
in the Create a volume section of the Docker Remote API and the xxopt
option to docker volume create.
labels
Type: MAP_STRING_STRING
Provider name: labels
Description: Custom metadata to add to your Docker volume. This parameter maps to Labels
in the Create a volume section of the Docker Remote API and the xxlabel
option to docker volume create.
scope
Type: STRING
Provider name: scope
Description: The scope for the Docker volume that determines its lifecycle. Docker volumes that are scoped to a task
are automatically provisioned when the task starts and destroyed when the task stops. Docker volumes that are scoped as shared
persist after the task stops.
efs_volume_configuration
Type: STRUCT
Provider name: efsVolumeConfiguration
Description: This parameter is specified when you use an Amazon Elastic File System file system for task storage.
authorization_config
Type: STRUCT
Provider name: authorizationConfig
Description: The authorization configuration details for the Amazon EFS file system.
access_point_id
Type: STRING
Provider name: accessPointId
Description: The Amazon EFS access point ID to use. If an access point is specified, the root directory value specified in the EFSVolumeConfiguration
must either be omitted or set to /
which will enforce the path set on the EFS access point. If an access point is used, transit encryption must be on in the EFSVolumeConfiguration
. For more information, see Working with Amazon EFS access points in the Amazon Elastic File System User Guide.
iam
Type: STRING
Provider name: iam
Description: Determines whether to use the Amazon ECS task role defined in a task definition when mounting the Amazon EFS file system. If it is turned on, transit encryption must be turned on in the EFSVolumeConfiguration
. If this parameter is omitted, the default value of DISABLED
is used. For more information, see Using Amazon EFS access points in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide.
file_system_id
Type: STRING
Provider name: fileSystemId
Description: The Amazon EFS file system ID to use.
root_directory
Type: STRING
Provider name: rootDirectory
Description: The directory within the Amazon EFS file system to mount as the root directory inside the host. If this parameter is omitted, the root of the Amazon EFS volume will be used. Specifying /
will have the same effect as omitting this parameter. If an EFS access point is specified in the authorizationConfig
, the root directory parameter must either be omitted or set to /
which will enforce the path set on the EFS access point.
transit_encryption
Type: STRING
Provider name: transitEncryption
Description: Determines whether to use encryption for Amazon EFS data in transit between the Amazon ECS host and the Amazon EFS server. Transit encryption must be turned on if Amazon EFS IAM authorization is used. If this parameter is omitted, the default value of DISABLED
is used. For more information, see Encrypting data in transit in the Amazon Elastic File System User Guide.
transit_encryption_port
Type: INT32
Provider name: transitEncryptionPort
Description: The port to use when sending encrypted data between the Amazon ECS host and the Amazon EFS server. If you do not specify a transit encryption port, it will use the port selection strategy that the Amazon EFS mount helper uses. For more information, see EFS mount helper in the Amazon Elastic File System User Guide.
fsx_windows_file_server_volume_configuration
Type: STRUCT
Provider name: fsxWindowsFileServerVolumeConfiguration
Description: This parameter is specified when you use Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file system for task storage.
authorization_config
Type: STRUCT
Provider name: authorizationConfig
Description: The authorization configuration details for the Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file system.
credentials_parameter
Type: STRING
Provider name: credentialsParameter
Description: The authorization credential option to use. The authorization credential options can be provided using either the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of an Secrets Manager secret or SSM Parameter Store parameter. The ARN refers to the stored credentials.
domain
Type: STRING
Provider name: domain
Description: A fully qualified domain name hosted by an Directory Service Managed Microsoft AD (Active Directory) or self-hosted AD on Amazon EC2.
file_system_id
Type: STRING
Provider name: fileSystemId
Description: The Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file system ID to use.
root_directory
Type: STRING
Provider name: rootDirectory
Description: The directory within the Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file system to mount as the root directory inside the host.
host
Type: STRUCT
Provider name: host
Description: This parameter is specified when you use bind mount host volumes. The contents of the host
parameter determine whether your bind mount host volume persists on the host container instance and where it’s stored. If the host
parameter is empty, then the Docker daemon assigns a host path for your data volume. However, the data isn’t guaranteed to persist after the containers that are associated with it stop running. Windows containers can mount whole directories on the same drive as $env:ProgramData
. Windows containers can’t mount directories on a different drive, and mount point can’t be across drives. For example, you can mount C:\my\path:C:\my\path
and D::D:</code>, but not D:\my\path:C:\my\path
or D::C:\my\path
.
source_path
Type: STRING
Provider name: sourcePath
Description: When the host
parameter is used, specify a sourcePath
to declare the path on the host container instance that’s presented to the container. If this parameter is empty, then the Docker daemon has assigned a host path for you. If the host
parameter contains a sourcePath
file location, then the data volume persists at the specified location on the host container instance until you delete it manually. If the sourcePath
value doesn’t exist on the host container instance, the Docker daemon creates it. If the location does exist, the contents of the source path folder are exported. If you’re using the Fargate launch type, the sourcePath
parameter is not supported.
name
Type: STRING
Provider name: name
Description: The name of the volume. Up to 255 letters (uppercase and lowercase), numbers, underscores, and hyphens are allowed. When using a volume configured at launch, the name
is required and must also be specified as the volume name in the ServiceVolumeConfiguration
or TaskVolumeConfiguration
parameter when creating your service or standalone task. For all other types of volumes, this name is referenced in the sourceVolume
parameter of the mountPoints
object in the container definition. When a volume is using the efsVolumeConfiguration
, the name is required.