Using the Amazon ECS Service task in Bamboo

You can use the Amazon ECS Service task to create, update or delete an Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) service (see Deploying to Amazon ECS for an overview of the ECS component lifecycle and deployment workflow).

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Deploying to Amazon ECS

Configuration

To configure an Amazon ECS Service task:

Navigate to the Tasks configuration tab for the job (this will be the default job if creating a new plan).
Click the name of an existing Amazon ECS Service task, or click Add Task and then Amazon ECS Service to create a new task.

Complete the following settings:

Common to all tasks

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Task Description	(Optional) Identify the purpose of the task.
Disable this task	Check, or clear, to selectively run this task.
Action	Each task supports one or more actions depending on the target AWS resource. Select the desired action and configure the action specific parameters below.
Region	Select the desired AWS Region. Alternatively, select [Use region variable ...] to supply the region dynamically via Bamboo variables (needs to be a region code such as `ap-southeast-2`) - refer to How to parametrize the AWS region via a Bamboo variable for details.
...	Configure task/action specific parameters, see below ...
AWS Security Credentials
Source	Select the source for the required AWS Security Credentials - can be either Inline, an IAM Role for EC2 or a shared Identity Federation for AWS Connector.
Connector	(Conditional) Select the shared Identity Federation for AWS Connector. Alternatively, select [Use connector variable ...] to supply the connector dynamically via Bamboo variables (needs to be a connector id such as `f24e81bc-7aff-42db-86a2-7cf82e24d871`) - refer to How to parametrize the AWS connector via a Bamboo variable for details.

Actions supported by this task:

Variables

All tasks support Bamboo Variable Substitution/Definition - this task's actions generate variables as follows:

A task's generated variables might get amended with respective AWS API additions over time - a live build log will always provide the most current variable shape accordingly

Create Service

Creating common variables for 1 services:
... bamboo.custom.aws.ecs.service.resources: TAWS-IT270-ECSSE-nginx
Creating resource variables for service 'TAWS-IT270-ECSSE-nginx':
... bamboo.custom.aws.ecs.service.resources.TAWS-IT270-ECSSE-nginx.ClusterArn: arn:aws:ecs:us-east-1:309600995652:cluster/TAWS-IT270-43-ubot
... bamboo.custom.aws.ecs.service.resources.TAWS-IT270-ECSSE-nginx.RoleArn: arn:aws:iam::309600995652:role/amazon-ecs-service
... bamboo.custom.aws.ecs.service.resources.TAWS-IT270-ECSSE-nginx.ServiceArn: arn:aws:ecs:us-east-1:309600995652:service/TAWS-IT270-ECSSE-nginx
... bamboo.custom.aws.ecs.service.resources.TAWS-IT270-ECSSE-nginx.ServiceName: TAWS-IT270-ECSSE-nginx
... bamboo.custom.aws.ecs.service.resources.TAWS-IT270-ECSSE-nginx.Status: ACTIVE
... bamboo.custom.aws.ecs.service.resources.TAWS-IT270-ECSSE-nginx.TaskDefinition: arn:aws:ecs:us-east-1:309600995652:task-definition/TAWS-IT270-ECSSE-nginx:124
... bamboo.custom.aws.ecs.service.resources.TAWS-IT270-ECSSE-nginx.DesiredCount: 2
... bamboo.custom.aws.ecs.service.resources.TAWS-IT270-ECSSE-nginx.PendingCount: 0
... bamboo.custom.aws.ecs.service.resources.TAWS-IT270-ECSSE-nginx.RunningCount: 2
Creating common variables for first resource affected by task:
Creating resource variables for service 'TAWS-IT270-ECSSE-nginx':
... bamboo.custom.aws.ecs.service.first.ClusterArn: arn:aws:ecs:us-east-1:309600995652:cluster/TAWS-IT270-43-ubot
... bamboo.custom.aws.ecs.service.first.RoleArn: arn:aws:iam::309600995652:role/amazon-ecs-service
... bamboo.custom.aws.ecs.service.first.ServiceArn: arn:aws:ecs:us-east-1:309600995652:service/TAWS-IT270-ECSSE-nginx
... bamboo.custom.aws.ecs.service.first.ServiceName: TAWS-IT270-ECSSE-nginx
... bamboo.custom.aws.ecs.service.first.Status: ACTIVE
... bamboo.custom.aws.ecs.service.first.TaskDefinition: arn:aws:ecs:us-east-1:309600995652:task-definition/TAWS-IT270-ECSSE-nginx:124
... bamboo.custom.aws.ecs.service.first.DesiredCount: 2
... bamboo.custom.aws.ecs.service.first.PendingCount: 0
... bamboo.custom.aws.ecs.service.first.RunningCount: 2

Update Service

See Create above.

Delete Service

See Create above.

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