ECS Task
ECS Task Definitions
A task definition contains parameters needed to run Docker containers on Amazon ECS. For example, the docker image and the amount of resources allocated to execute the container are some of the parameters defined in the task definition. In addition, each task definition supports multiple containers.
Click here to learn more about ECS Task Definitions.
Creating the ECS Task
Inside the ECS Console that you used previously, click on Task Definitions
Start the task definition wizard by clicking on Create New Task Definition
Select Fargate and click on Next Step.
ECS can also be deployed to EC2 instances, click here to learn more.
Fill in the Task Definition Name field with awsbuilders-task-definition
Keep scrolling down - Select 0.5GB for Task Memory (GB) and 0.25vCPU for Task CPU vCPU
Let’s create your container - click on Add container
Use awsbuilders-task-container for the container name and paste the Image URI copied from the AWS ECR console to fill in the image field. Don’t forget to add :latest to the end of the URI.
Example: 123456789012.dkr.ecr.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awsbuilders-dotnet:latest
Before clicking on Add, set the Port mappings to 80 TCP
After creating the container, click on create to finalize the task definition wizard.
