aws_ecs_task_definition

Provides an ECS task definition to be used in aws_ecs_service.

Example Usage

resource "aws_ecs_task_definition" "jenkins" {
  family = "jenkins"
  container_definitions = "${file("task-definitions/jenkins.json")}"

  volume {
    name = "jenkins-home"
    host_path = "/ecs/jenkins-home"
  }
}

task-definitions/jenkins.json

The below would be passed into the container_definitions attribute. This is a small subset of the available parameters, see the AWS docs for a full list.

[
  {
    "name": "jenkins",
    "image": "jenkins",
    "cpu": 10,
    "memory": 500,
    "essential": true,
    "portMappings": [
      {
        "containerPort": 80,
        "hostPort": 80
      }
    ]
  }
]

Argument Reference

The following arguments are supported:

• family - (Required) The family, unique name for your task definition.
• container_definitions - (Required) A list of container definitions in JSON format. See AWS docs for syntax. Note, you only need the containerDefinitions array, not the parent hash including the family and volumes keys.
• task_role_arn - (Optional) The ARN of IAM role that allows your Amazon ECS container task to make calls to other AWS services.
• network_mode - (Optional) The Docker networking mode to use for the containers in the task. The valid values are none, bridge, and host.
• volume - (Optional) A volume block. Volumes documented below.

Volumes support the following:

• name - (Required) The name of the volume. This name is referenced in the sourceVolume parameter of container definition mountPoints.
• host_path - (Required) The path on the host container instance that is presented to the container.

Attributes Reference

The following attributes are exported:

• arn - Full ARN of the task definition (including both family & revision)
• family - The family of the task definition.
• revision - The revision of the task in a particular family.

See the source of this document at Terraform.io