AWS ECS CLI Commands
AWS ECS CLI facilitates in streamlining the ECS Cluster Management. It helps the users to deploy, scale and monitoring the containerized applications efficiently. The commands with arguments such as ‘up’ for resource provisioning and ‘logs’ helps in real time log retrivalling. ECS CLI simplifies the docker container orchestration on AWS ECS with integrating with Docker Compose enhances in seamless deployment of multi-container applications. AWS ECS CLI helps in offering convenient development experience. The following are some of the common needed ECS CLI commands with effective explaination.
- ecs-cli configure profile:
This command is useful in creating and updating the profiles of ECS CLI. This profiles store the configuration settings such as AWS access key, secret key and default region.
Example
ecs-cli configure profile --profile-name myprofile --access-key <access-key> --secret-key <secret-key> --region <region>
- ecs-cli up
It useful for creating and updating the ECS Resources that are defined in the ECS CLI Project. This command provisions the ECS clusters, services and the task definitions based on the configuration specified in the ECS CLI Project.
Example
ecs-cli up --capability-iam --keypair <keypair-name>
- ecs-cli compose up
It used in creating and updating ECS services and task definitions specially for the projects that uses the Docker Compose files.
Example
ecs-cli compose up
- ecs-cli ps
It lists the ECS container instances that are running in the specified ECS Cluster. It facilitates with providing the information like Instance ID, ARN, status and running tasks.
Example
ecs-cli ps --cluster mycluster
- ecs-cli service list
This command helps in listing the ECS services that are running in the specified ECS cluster. It facilitates with showing the details such as service name, desired count, running count and deployment status.
Example
ecs-cli service list --cluster mycluster
- ecs-cli logs
This command helps in retrieving the logs from the specified ECS cluster for a particular service. It supports in streaming the logs in real-time or fetching logs for a specific range of time.
Example
ecs-cli logs --task-id <task-id> --follow
- ecs-cli compose service scale
This commands helps in scaling the number of containers (tasks) associated with a particular service that defines the Docker compose file.
Example
ecs-cli compose service scale 3
- ecs-cli compose service ps
This command helps in listing the tasks that are associated wit the defined service in the Docker compose file. It supports with show casing the details such as task ID, health status and running containers with task.
Example
ecs-cli compose service ps
- ecs-cli down
This command helps in deleting the ECS resources that are provisioned by the ECS CLI project. It removes the ECS clusters, services task definitions and other related resources.
Example
ecs-cli down --force
- ecs-cli configure logging
This command helps in configuring the logging for the ECS CLI. It faciliates in specifying the logging options such as log driver and options for logging behaviour.
Example
ecs-cli configure logging --log-driver awslogs --region <region> --awslogs-group <log-group-name>
How To Setup Amazon Web Service (AWS) ECS?
Amazon ECS is a popular Cloud Computing service that is used for more efficient cloud-based container management. Amazon ECS makes it easier to build apps without being limited by physical hardware resources. In this article, we will guide you through setting up and running the ECS service and show you how it takes advantage of scalability and efficiency.
Table of Content
- What Is Amazon ECS?
- How To Setup Amazon ECS?
- How Do I Step Up ECS On AWS : A Step-By-Step Guide
- AWS ECS CLI Commands
- Conclusion
- Amazon ECS – FAQs