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Init ECS Task Template

We will config ECS Task through this json template file. It contains necessary variables for ECS Task. All of them will be tranfered through Terraform variables. Our purpose is making Terraform controlling everything:

Init ECS Task configuration

We only just to copy and save it into ./templates/ecs_container.json.tpl file, if you want to modify the variable name, please change inside Terraform resources data.template_file.container_template too:

[
  {
    "name": "${container_name}",
    "image": "${app_image}",
    "essential": true,
    "cpu": ${fargate_cpu},
    "memory": ${fargate_memory},
    "networkMode": "awsvpc",
    "logConfiguration": {
        "logDriver": "awslogs",
        "options": {
          "awslogs-group": "/ecs/web-app-logs",
          "awslogs-create-group": "true",
          "awslogs-region": "${aws_region}",
          "awslogs-stream-prefix": "ecs"
        }
    },
    "portMappings": [
      {
        "containerPort": ${container_port},
        "hostPort": ${host_port},
        "protocol": "tcp"
      }
    ]
  }
]