Bug: Invalid task definition: Could not find container definition with matching name about amazon-ecs-render-task-definition

[ranman166]

I'm having the same issue. Here are the things I've tried to far-

• Went to version 1.1.2, 1.0.9, 1.0.2
• hard coded the ecr image and URI
• Quotes, single quotes
• Manually created task with the image URI I intended to use (did to confirm i was using the right arn)
• provide ecs:* and ecr:* to ensure gitub action role had enough permissions (previous jobs already validated this, but i was getting desperate.)

None of these got this action to work while disproving other issues. I think i'm just going to go with writing my own script here.

Never mind, I'm a silly goose. I had container-name as the name of the container or repo in ecr not the name of the container in the task definition or more specifically the container definition.

Updating that fixed it and works on 1.1.3 for me.

UPDATE as of 21st Spt. 2023

The action is now working without issues.

In case this action is not working for you, here's an alternative:

#!/bin/bash

# Check if the new image parameter is provided
if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
    echo "Usage: $0 <new_image>"
    exit 1
fi

# Read the new image from the command line argument
new_image=$1

# Read the JSON file into a variable
json_data=$(cat task-definition.json)

# Use jq to update the "image" field with the new value
updated_json=$(echo "$json_data" | jq --arg new_image "$new_image" '.containerDefinitions[0].image = $new_image')

# Save the updated JSON back to the file
echo "$updated_json" > task-definition.json

Run like:

./aws-ecs-task-def-renderer.sh <YOUR_NEW_IMAGE_TAG_HERE>