“Error: Task definition file does not exist: ” when deploying Docker images to AWS ECS about amazon-ecs-render-task-definition

[chorsnell]

for anyone else finding this, it turns out task-definition: does not obey working_directory, so the relative path needs to be from the root of your repo

[RulerOf]

In my case, I had forgotten to run the checkout step.

[islamsalah2020]

I faced the same issue, then I figured out that I need to download the task definition first then update it with the new container image. that solved the issue and I was able to deploy to ECS.

- name: Download task definition
      run: |
          aws ecs describe-task-definition --task-definition ${{ vars.MY_ECS_TASK_DEFINITION }} \
          --query taskDefinition > task-definition.json
      
 - name: Fill in the new image ID in the Amazon ECS task definition
      id: task-def
      uses: aws-actions/amazon-ecs-render-task-definition@v1
      with:
          task-definition: task-definition.json
          container-name: ${{ vars.MY_CONTAINER_NAME   }}
          image: ${{ steps.build-image.outputs.image }}

[ShyamPanj]

my task-defintion.json file is directly under repo. How should I specify the path?

[shubhamnagota]

for anyone else finding this, it turns out task-definition: does not obey working_directory, so the relative path needs to be from the root of your repo

Continuing on @chorsnell answer, I changed task-definition.json to ./server/task-definition.json
you can change server to your-subdirectory-name
Turns out to be working.

      id: task-def
      uses: aws-actions/amazon-ecs-render-task-definition@v1
      with:
          task-definition: ./server/task-definition.json
          container-name: ${{ vars.MY_CONTAINER_NAME   }}
          image: ${{ steps.build-image.outputs.image }}```

[naveen-marthala]

I hadn't uploaded the task defintion file to my github repo with the thought that the GitHub will pull it from my AWS account.

[sandeepinsys]

my task-defintion.json file is directly under repo. How should I specify the path?

In that case, path should be ./task-defintion.json

[JohnQ1981]

Please anyone can help, failing at the same step as mentioned above. and i have my

and my github is https://github.com/JohnQ1981/teachermonsters

env:
AWS_REGION: us-east-2
ECR_REPOSITORY: mfedockertest
ECS_SERVICE: mfedockertest-service
ECS_CLUSTER: mfedockertest-cluster
ECS_TASK_DEFINITION: ./task-definition.json
CONTAINER_NAME: mfedockertest-task-definition
AWS_DEFAULT_REGION: us-east-2
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ***
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ***
Error: Task definition file does not exist: ./task-definition.json

[tatianafrank]

Please anyone can help, failing at the same step as mentioned above. and i have my

and my github is https://github.com/JohnQ1981/teachermonsters

env: AWS_REGION: us-east-2 ECR_REPOSITORY: mfedockertest ECS_SERVICE: mfedockertest-service ECS_CLUSTER: mfedockertest-cluster ECS_TASK_DEFINITION: ./task-definition.json CONTAINER_NAME: mfedockertest-task-definition AWS_DEFAULT_REGION: us-east-2 AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: *** AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: *** Error: Task definition file does not exist: ./task-definition.json

because your file is .yml but your path says .json