Launch Templates vs Launch Configurations about amazon-ecs-cli

[diablodale]

Hi. My understanding is this tool and repo are deprecated. I doubt we will see AWS make an official code update.
Still, there is some good news...

When one follows these conditions:

• continue to use the same AWS account to create/destroy clusters using ECS-CLI
• AND
• don't need the newest ECS instance types

...then I think the tool will continue to work with no changes. The official blog post on this, sdk docs, and yesterday's email you received all suggest this to me. Definitely check independent for your own projects.

Next, a quick look at the code shows the embedded CloudFormation template

amazon-ecs-cli/ecs-cli/modules/clients/aws/cloudformation/cluster_template.go

Line 596 in 6d2b2a6

"LaunchConfigurationName": {

uses launch configurations. It is technically possible to update this and the other parts of ECS-CLI code to use the newer launch template. If someone knew the ECS-CLI codebase well, I suspect it is less than a week's work.

[diablodale]

Docker themselves added an ability to push to ECS using their native docker-compose. Perhaps that has enough features to meet your needs.

https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-compose-from-local-to-amazon-ecs/
https://docs.docker.com/cloud/ecs-integration/
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/deploy-applications-on-amazon-ecs-using-docker-compose/

or 3rd party https://github.com/compose-x/ecs_composex/

[NevRA]

@diablodale, thanks for the reply.
I'm using it because I need EC2 & docker compose support (AWS Copilot CLI doesn't support it yet). Maybe you know an alternative to ECS CLI?