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Job Definition Parameters

Job definitions are split into four basic parts: the job definition name, the type of the job definition, parameter substitution placeholder defaults, and the container properties for the job.

Job Definition Name

jobDefinitionName

When you register a job definition, you specify a name. Up to 128 letters (uppercase and lowercase), numbers, hyphens, and underscores are allowed. The first job definition that is registered with that name is given a revision of 1. Any subsequent job definitions that are registered with that name are given an incremental revision number.

Type: String

Required: Yes

Type

type

When you register a job definition, you specify the type of job. At this time, only container jobs are supported.

Type: String

Valid values: container

Required: Yes

Parameters

parameters

When you submit a job, you can specify parameters that should replace the placeholders or override the default job definition parameters. Parameters in job submission requests take precedence over the defaults in a job definition. This allows you to use the same job definition for multiple jobs that use the same format, and programmatically change values in the command at submission time.

Type: String to string map

Required: No

When you register a job definition, you can use parameter substitution placeholders in the command field of a job's container properties. For example:

"command": [ "ffmpeg", "-i", "Ref::inputfile", "-c", "Ref::codec", "-o", "Ref::outputfile" ]

In the above example, there are Ref::inputfile, Ref::codec, and Ref::outputfile parameter substitution placeholders in the command. The parameters object in the job definition allows you to set default values for these placeholders. For example, to set a default for the Ref::codec placeholder, you specify the following in the job definition:

"parameters" : {"codec" : "mp4"}

When this job definition is submitted to run, the Ref::codec argument in the container's command is replaced with the default value, mp4.

Retry Strategy

retryStrategy

When you register a job definition, you can optionally specify a retry strategy to use for failed jobs that are submitted with this job definition. By default, each job is attempted one time. If you specify more than one attempt, the job is retried if it fails (for example, if it returns a non-zero exit code or the container instance is terminated). For more information, see Automated Job Retries.

Type: RetryStrategy object

Required: No

attempts

The number of times to move a job to the RUNNABLE status. You may specify between 1 and 10 attempts. If attempts is greater than one, the job is retried that many times if it fails, until it has moved to RUNNABLE.

"attempts": integer

Type: Integer

Required: No

Timeout

timeout

You can configure a timeout duration for your jobs so that if a job runs longer than that, AWS Batch terminates the job. For more information, see Job Timeouts. If a job is terminated due to a timeout, it is not retried. Any timeout configuration that is specified during a SubmitJob operation overrides the timeout configuration defined here. For more information, see Job Timeouts.

Type: JobTimeout object

Required: No

attemptDurationSeconds

The time duration in seconds (measured from the job attempt's startedAt timestamp) after which AWS Batch terminates your jobs if they have not finished. The minimum value for the timeout is 60 seconds.

Type: Integer

Required: No

Container Properties

When you register a job definition, you must specify a list of container properties that are passed to the Docker daemon on a container instance when the job is placed. The following container properties are allowed in a job definition.

command

The command that is passed to the container. This parameter maps to Cmd in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the COMMAND parameter to docker run. For more information about the Docker CMD parameter, see https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder/#cmd.

"command": ["string", ...]

Type: String array

Required: No

environment

The environment variables to pass to a container. This parameter maps to Env in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the --env option to docker run.

Important

We do not recommend using plaintext environment variables for sensitive information, such as credential data.

Type: Array of key-value pairs

Required: No

name

The name of the environment variable.

Type: String

Required: Yes, when environment is used.

value

The value of the environment variable.

Type: String

Required: Yes, when environment is used.

"environment" : [
    { "name" : "string", "value" : "string" },
    { "name" : "string", "value" : "string" }
]

image

The image used to start a container. This string is passed directly to the Docker daemon. Images in the Docker Hub registry are available by default. You can also specify other repositories with repository-url/image:tag. Up to 255 letters (uppercase and lowercase), numbers, hyphens, underscores, colons, periods, forward slashes, and number signs are allowed. This parameter maps to Image in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the IMAGE parameter of docker run.

• Images in Amazon ECR repositories use the full registry/repository:tag naming convention. For example, aws_account_id.dkr.ecr.region.amazonaws.com/my-web-app:latest

• Images in official repositories on Docker Hub use a single name (for example, ubuntu or mongo).

• Images in other repositories on Docker Hub are qualified with an organization name (for example, amazon/amazon-ecs-agent).

• Images in other online repositories are qualified further by a domain name (for example, quay.io/assemblyline/ubuntu).

Type: String

Required: Yes

jobRoleArn

When you register a job definition, you can specify an IAM role. The role provides the job container with permissions to call the API actions that are specified in its associated policies on your behalf. For more information, see IAM Roles for Tasks in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide.

Type: String

Required: No

memory

The hard limit (in MiB) of memory to present to the container. If your container attempts to exceed the memory specified here, the container is killed. This parameter maps to Memory in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the --memory option to docker run. You must specify at least 4 MiB of memory for a job.

Note

If you are trying to maximize your resource utilization by providing your jobs as much memory as possible for a particular instance type, see Compute Resource Memory Management.

Type: Integer

Required: Yes

mountPoints

The mount points for data volumes in your container. This parameter maps to Volumes in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the --volume option to docker run.

"mountPoints": [
                {
                  "sourceVolume": "string",
                  "containerPath": "string",
                  "readOnly": true|false
                }
              ]

Type: Object array

Required: No

sourceVolume

The name of the volume to mount.

Type: String

Required: Yes, when mountPoints is used.

containerPath

The path on the container at which to mount the host volume.

Type: String

Required: Yes, when mountPoints is used.

readOnly

If this value is true, the container has read-only access to the volume. If this value is false, then the container can write to the volume. The default value is false.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

privileged

When this parameter is true, the container is given elevated privileges on the host container instance (similar to the root user). This parameter maps to Privileged in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the --privileged option to docker run.

"privileged": true|false

Type: Boolean

Required: No

readonlyRootFilesystem

When this parameter is true, the container is given read-only access to its root file system. This parameter maps to ReadonlyRootfs in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the --read-only option to docker run.

"readonlyRootFilesystem": true|false

Type: Boolean

Required: No

ulimits

A list of ulimits values to set in the container. This parameter maps to Ulimits in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the --ulimit option to docker run.

"ulimits": [
      {
        "name": string,
        "softLimit": integer,
        "hardLimit": integer
      }
      ...
    ]

Type: Object array

Required: No

name

The type of the ulimit.

Type: String

Required: Yes, when ulimits is used.

hardLimit

The hard limit for the ulimit type.

Type: Integer

Required: Yes, when ulimits is used.

softLimit

The soft limit for the ulimit type.

Type: Integer

Required: Yes, when ulimits is used.

user

The user name to use inside the container. This parameter maps to User in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the --user option to docker run.

"user": "string"

Type: String

Required: No

vcpus

The number of vCPUs reserved for the container. This parameter maps to CpuShares in the Create a container section of the Docker Remote API and the --cpu-shares option to docker run. Each vCPU is equivalent to 1,024 CPU shares. You must specify at least 1 vCPU.

Type: Integer

Required: Yes

volumes

When you register a job definition, you can optionally specify a list of volumes that are passed to the Docker daemon on a container instance. The following parameters are allowed in the container properties:

name

The name of the volume. Up to 255 letters (uppercase and lowercase), numbers, hyphens, and underscores are allowed. This name is referenced in the sourceVolume parameter of container definition mountPoints.

Type: String

Required: Yes

host

The contents of the host parameter determine whether your data volume persists on the host container instance and where it is stored. If the host parameter is empty, then the Docker daemon assigns a host path for your data volume. However, the data is not guaranteed to persist after the container associated with it stops running.

[
  {
    "name": "string",
    "host": {
      "sourcePath": "string"
    }
  }
]

Type: Object

Required: No

sourcePath

The path on the host container instance that is presented to the container. If this parameter is empty, then the Docker daemon assigns a host path for you.

If the host parameter contains a sourcePath file location, then the data volume persists at the specified location on the host container instance until you delete it manually. If the sourcePath value does not exist on the host container instance, the Docker daemon creates it. If the location does exist, the contents of the source path folder are exported.

Type: String

Required: No