community.aws.ecs_taskdefinition module – register a task definition in ecs

Note

This module is part of the community.aws collection (version 2.6.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.aws.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.aws.ecs_taskdefinition.

New in version 1.0.0: of community.aws

Synopsis

  • Registers or deregisters task definitions in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 Container Service (ECS).

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • python >= 3.6

  • boto3 >= 1.15.0

  • botocore >= 1.18.0

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

arn

string

The ARN of the task description to delete.

aws_access_key

aliases: ec2_access_key, access_key

string

AWS access key. If not set then the value of the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_ACCESS_KEY or EC2_ACCESS_KEY environment variable is used.

If profile is set this parameter is ignored.

Passing the aws_access_key and profile options at the same time has been deprecated and the options will be made mutually exclusive after 2022-06-01.

aws_ca_bundle

path

The location of a CA Bundle to use when validating SSL certificates.

Not used by boto 2 based modules.

Note: The CA Bundle is read ‘module’ side and may need to be explicitly copied from the controller if not run locally.

aws_config

dictionary

A dictionary to modify the botocore configuration.

Parameters can be found at https://botocore.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/reference/config.html#botocore.config.Config.

Only the ‘user_agent’ key is used for boto modules. See http://boto.cloudhackers.com/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html#boto for more boto configuration.

aws_secret_key

aliases: ec2_secret_key, secret_key

string

AWS secret key. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_KEY, or EC2_SECRET_KEY environment variable is used.

If profile is set this parameter is ignored.

Passing the aws_secret_key and profile options at the same time has been deprecated and the options will be made mutually exclusive after 2022-06-01.

containers

list / elements=dictionary / required

A list of containers definitions.

See https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/reference/services/ecs.html for a complete list of parameters.

command

list / elements=string

The command that is passed to the container. If there are multiple arguments, each argument is a separated string in the array.

cpu

integer

The number of cpu units reserved for the container.

dependsOn

list / elements=dictionary

The dependencies defined for container startup and shutdown.

When a dependency is defined for container startup, for container shutdown it is reversed.

condition

string / required

The dependency condition of the container.

Choices:

  • start

  • complete

  • success

  • healthy

containerName

string / required

The name of a container.

disableNetworking

boolean

When this parameter is True, networking is disabled within the container.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes

dnsSearchDomains

list / elements=string

A list of DNS search domains that are presented to the container.

This parameter is not supported for Windows containers.

dnsServers

list / elements=string

A list of DNS servers that are presented to the container.

This parameter is not supported for Windows containers.

dockerLabels

dictionary

A key/value map of labels to add to the container.

dockerSecurityOptions

list / elements=string

A list of strings to provide custom labels for SELinux and AppArmor multi-level security systems.

This parameter is not supported for Windows containers.

entryPoint

string

The entry point that is passed to the container.

environment

list / elements=dictionary

The environment variables to pass to a container.

name

string

The name of the key-value pair.

value

string

The value of the key-value pair.

environmentFiles

list / elements=dictionary

A list of files containing the environment variables to pass to a container.

type

string

The file type to use. The only supported value is s3.

value

string

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the Amazon S3 object containing the environment variable file.

essential

boolean

If essential=True, and the container fails or stops for any reason, all other containers that are part of the task are stopped.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes

extraHosts

list / elements=dictionary

A list of hostnames and IP address mappings to append to the /etc/hosts file on the container.

This parameter is not supported for Windows containers or tasks that use network_mode=awsvpc.

hostname

string

The hostname to use in the /etc/hosts entry.

ipAddress

string

The IP address to use in the /etc/hosts entry.

healthCheck

dictionary

The health check command and associated configuration parameters for the container.

hostname

string

The hostname to use for your container.

This parameter is not supported if network_mode=awsvpc.

image

string

The image used to start a container.

interactive

boolean

When interactive=True, it allows to deploy containerized applications that require stdin or a tty to be allocated.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes

list / elements=string

Allows containers to communicate with each other without the need for port mappings.

This parameter is only supported if network_mode=bridge.

linuxParameters

dictionary

Linux-specific modifications that are applied to the container, such as Linux kernel capabilities.

capabilities

dictionary

The Linux capabilities for the container that are added to or dropped from the default configuration provided by Docker.

add

list / elements=string

The Linux capabilities for the container that have been added to the default configuration provided by Docker.

If launch_type=FARGATE, this parameter is not supported.

Choices:

  • 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

list / elements=string

The Linux capabilities for the container that have been removed from the default configuration provided by Docker.

Choices:

  • 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

list / elements=dictionary

Any host devices to expose to the container.

If launch_type=FARGATE, this parameter is not supported.

containerPath

string

The path inside the container at which to expose the host device.

hostPath

string / required

The path for the device on the host container instance.

permissions

list / elements=string

The explicit permissions to provide to the container for the device.

initProcessEnabled

boolean

Run an init process inside the container that forwards signals and reaps processes.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes

maxSwap

integer

The total amount of swap memory (in MiB) a container can use.

If launch_type=FARGATE, this parameter is not supported.

sharedMemorySize

integer

The value for the size (in MiB) of the /dev/shm volume.

If launch_type=FARGATE, this parameter is not supported.

swappiness

integer

This allows you to tune a container’s memory swappiness behavior.

If launch_type=FARGATE, this parameter is not supported.

tmpfs

list / elements=dictionary

The container path, mount options, and size (in MiB) of the tmpfs mount.

If launch_type=FARGATE, this parameter is not supported.

containerPath

string / required

The absolute file path where the tmpfs volume is to be mounted.

mountOptions

list / elements=string

The list of tmpfs volume mount options.

Choices:

  • 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

integer / required

The size (in MiB) of the tmpfs volume.

logConfiguration

dictionary

The log configuration specification for the container.

logDriver

string

The log driver to use for the container.

For tasks on AWS 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.

memory

integer

The amount (in MiB) of memory to present to the container.

memoryReservation

integer

The soft limit (in MiB) of memory to reserve for the container.

mountPoints

list / elements=dictionary

The mount points for data volumes in your container.

containerPath

string

The path on the container to mount the host volume at.

readOnly

boolean

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.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

sourceVolume

string

The name of the volume to mount.

name

string

The name of a container.

options

string

The configuration options to send to the log driver.

portMappings

list / elements=dictionary

The list of port mappings for the container.

containerPort

integer

The port number on the container that is bound to the user-specified or automatically assigned host port.

hostPort

integer

The port number on the container instance to reserve for your container.

protocol

string

The protocol used for the port mapping.

Choices:

  • tcp ← (default)

  • udp

privileged

boolean

When this parameter is True, the container is given elevated privileges on the host container instance.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes

pseudoTerminal

boolean

When this parameter is True, a TTY is allocated.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes

readonlyRootFilesystem

boolean

When this parameter is True, the container is given read-only access to its root file system.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes

repositoryCredentials

dictionary

The private repository authentication credentials to use.

credentialsParameter

string / required

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the secret containing the private repository credentials.

resourceRequirements

list / elements=dictionary

The type and amount of a resource to assign to a container.

The only supported resources are GPU and InferenceAccelerator.

type

string

The type of resource to assign to a container.

Choices:

  • GPU

  • InferenceAccelerator

value

string

The value for the specified resource type.

secretOptions

list / elements=dictionary

The secrets to pass to the log configuration.

name

string

The name of the secret.

valueFrom

string

The secret to expose to the container.

secrets

list / elements=dictionary

The secrets to pass to the container.

name

string / required

The value to set as the environment variable on the container.

size

string / required

The secret to expose to the container.

startTimeout

integer

Time duration (in seconds) to wait before giving up on resolving dependencies for a container.

stopTimeout

integer

Time duration (in seconds) to wait before the container is forcefully killed if it doesn’t exit normally on its own.

systemControls

list / elements=dictionary

A list of namespaced kernel parameters to set in the container.

namespace

string

The namespaced kernel parameter to set a value for.

value

string

The value for the namespaced kernel parameter that’s specified in namespace.

ulimits

list / elements=dictionary

A list of ulimits to set in the container.

This parameter is not supported for Windows containers.

hardLimit

integer

The hard limit for the ulimit type.

name

string

The type of the ulimit.

Choices:

  • core

  • cpu

  • data

  • fsize

  • locks

  • memlock

  • msgqueue

  • nice

  • nofile

  • nproc

  • rss

  • rtprio

  • rttime

  • sigpending

  • stack

softLimit

integer

The soft limit for the ulimit type.

user

string

The user to use inside the container.

This parameter is not supported for Windows containers.

volumesFrom

list / elements=dictionary

Data volumes to mount from another container.

readOnly

boolean

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.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

sourceContainer

string

The name of another container within the same task definition from which to mount volumes.

workingDirectory

string

The working directory in which to run commands inside the container.

cpu

string

The number of cpu units used by the task. If launch_type=EC2, this field is optional and any value can be used.

If launch_type=FARGATE, this field is required and you must use one of 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096.

debug_botocore_endpoint_logs

boolean

Use a botocore.endpoint logger to parse the unique (rather than total) “resource:action” API calls made during a task, outputing the set to the resource_actions key in the task results. Use the aws_resource_action callback to output to total list made during a playbook. The ANSIBLE_DEBUG_BOTOCORE_LOGS environment variable may also be used.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

ec2_url

aliases: aws_endpoint_url, endpoint_url

string

URL to use to connect to EC2 or your Eucalyptus cloud (by default the module will use EC2 endpoints). Ignored for modules where region is required. Must be specified for all other modules if region is not used. If not set then the value of the EC2_URL environment variable, if any, is used.

execution_role_arn

string

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the task execution role that the Amazon ECS container agent and the Docker daemon can assume.

family

string

A Name that would be given to the task definition.

force_create

boolean

Always create new task definition.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

launch_type

string

The launch type on which to run your task.

Choices:

  • EC2

  • FARGATE

memory

string

The amount (in MiB) of memory used by the task. If launch_type=EC2, this field is optional and any value can be used.

If launch_type=FARGATE, this field is required and is limited by the CPU.

network_mode

string

The Docker networking mode to use for the containers in the task.

Windows containers must use network_mode=default, which will utilize docker NAT networking.

Setting network_mode=default for a Linux container will use bridge mode.

Choices:

  • default

  • bridge ← (default)

  • host

  • none

  • awsvpc

placement_constraints

list / elements=dictionary

added in 2.1.0 of community.aws

Placement constraint objects to use for the task.

You can specify a maximum of 10 constraints per task.

Task placement constraints are not supported for tasks run on Fargate.

expression

string

A cluster query language expression to apply to the constraint.

type

string

The type of constraint.

profile

aliases: aws_profile

string

Using profile will override aws_access_key, aws_secret_key and security_token and support for passing them at the same time as profile has been deprecated.

aws_access_key, aws_secret_key and security_token will be made mutually exclusive with profile after 2022-06-01.

region

aliases: aws_region, ec2_region

string

The AWS region to use. If not specified then the value of the AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION environment variable, if any, is used. See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ec2_region

revision

integer

A revision number for the task definition.

security_token

aliases: aws_security_token, access_token

string

AWS STS security token. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN environment variable is used.

If profile is set this parameter is ignored.

Passing the security_token and profile options at the same time has been deprecated and the options will be made mutually exclusive after 2022-06-01.

state

string / required

State whether the task definition should exist or be deleted.

Choices:

  • present

  • absent

task_role_arn

string

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the IAM role that containers in this task can assume. All containers in this task are granted the permissions that are specified in this role.

validate_certs

boolean

When set to “no”, SSL certificates will not be validated for communication with the AWS APIs.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

volumes

list / elements=dictionary

A list of names of volumes to be attached.

name

string / required

The name of the volume.

Notes

Note

  • If parameters are not set within the module, the following environment variables can be used in decreasing order of precedence AWS_URL or EC2_URL, AWS_PROFILE or AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE, AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID or AWS_ACCESS_KEY or EC2_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY or AWS_SECRET_KEY or EC2_SECRET_KEY, AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN, AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION, AWS_CA_BUNDLE

  • When no credentials are explicitly provided the AWS SDK (boto3) that Ansible uses will fall back to its configuration files (typically ~/.aws/credentials). See https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/guide/credentials.html for more information.

  • Modules based on the original AWS SDK (boto) may read their default configuration from different files. See https://boto.readthedocs.io/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html for more information.

  • AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION can be typically be used to specify the AWS region, when required, but this can also be defined in the configuration files.

Examples

- name: Create task definition
  community.aws.ecs_taskdefinition:
    containers:
    - name: simple-app
      cpu: 10
      essential: true
      image: "httpd:2.4"
      memory: 300
      mountPoints:
      - containerPath: /usr/local/apache2/htdocs
        sourceVolume: my-vol
      portMappings:
      - containerPort: 80
        hostPort: 80
      logConfiguration:
        logDriver: awslogs
        options:
          awslogs-group: /ecs/test-cluster-taskdef
          awslogs-region: us-west-2
          awslogs-stream-prefix: ecs
    - name: busybox
      command:
        - >
          /bin/sh -c "while true; do echo '<html><head><title>Amazon ECS Sample App</title></head><body><div><h1>Amazon ECS Sample App</h1><h2>Congratulations!
          </h2><p>Your application is now running on a container in Amazon ECS.</p>' > top; /bin/date > date ; echo '</div></body></html>' > bottom;
          cat top date bottom > /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/index.html ; sleep 1; done"
      cpu: 10
      entryPoint:
      - sh
      - "-c"
      essential: false
      image: busybox
      memory: 200
      volumesFrom:
      - sourceContainer: simple-app
    volumes:
    - name: my-vol
    family: test-cluster-taskdef
    state: present
  register: task_output

- name: Create task definition
  community.aws.ecs_taskdefinition:
    family: nginx
    containers:
    - name: nginx
      essential: true
      image: "nginx"
      portMappings:
      - containerPort: 8080
        hostPort: 8080
      cpu: 512
      memory: 1024
    state: present

- name: Create task definition
  community.aws.ecs_taskdefinition:
    family: nginx
    containers:
    - name: nginx
      essential: true
      image: "nginx"
      portMappings:
      - containerPort: 8080
        hostPort: 8080
    launch_type: FARGATE
    cpu: 512
    memory: 1024
    state: present
    network_mode: awsvpc

- name: Create task definition
  community.aws.ecs_taskdefinition:
    family: nginx
    containers:
    - name: nginx
      essential: true
      image: "nginx"
      portMappings:
      - containerPort: 8080
        hostPort: 8080
      cpu: 512
      memory: 1024
      dependsOn:
      - containerName: "simple-app"
        condition: "start"

# Create Task Definition with Environment Variables and Secrets
- name: Create task definition
  community.aws.ecs_taskdefinition:
    family: nginx
    containers:
    - name: nginx
      essential: true
      image: "nginx"
      environment:
        - name: "PORT"
          value: "8080"
      secrets:
        # For variables stored in Secrets Manager
        - name: "NGINX_HOST"
          valueFrom: "arn:aws:secretsmanager:us-west-2:123456789012:secret:nginx/NGINX_HOST"
        # For variables stored in Parameter Store
        - name: "API_KEY"
          valueFrom: "arn:aws:ssm:us-west-2:123456789012:parameter/nginx/API_KEY"
    launch_type: FARGATE
    cpu: 512
    memory: 1GB
    state: present
    network_mode: awsvpc

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key

Description

taskdefinition

dictionary

a reflection of the input parameters

Returned: always

Authors

  • Mark Chance (@Java1Guy)

  • Alina Buzachis (@alinabuzachis)