pjay/ecs-ami-updater repository overview

⁠ecs-ami-updater

Checks if the EC2 hosts running ECS have been booted from the most up-to-date AMI, and if not, updates a Cloudformation stack

⁠Expectations

There are a few:

• The container will have IAM role permissions to call:
  • ecs:ListAttributes
  • ssm:GetParameter
  • cloudformation:UpdateStack
• The Cloudformation stack to be updated will have the AMI ID as a parameter called ECSAMI
• The Cloudformation stack itself, and the ECS cluster will be given as arguments to the container invokation
  (e.g. docker run image stack_name cluster_name)