ecs-cli

Description

The Amazon ECS command line interface (CLI) provides high-level commands to simplify creating, updating, and monitoring clusters and tasks from a local development environment. The Amazon ECS CLI supports Docker Compose, a popular open-source tool for defining and running multi-container applications.

For a quick walkthrough of the Amazon ECS CLI, see the Tutorial: Creating a cluster with a Fargate task using the Amazon ECS CLI.

Help text is available for each individual subcommand with ecs-cli subcommand --help.

Important

Some features described might only be available with the latest version of the Amazon ECS CLI. For more information about obtaining the latest version, see Installing the Amazon ECS CLI.

Syntax

ecs-cli [--version] [subcommand] [--help]

Options

Name	Description
--version, -v	Prints the version information for the Amazon ECS CLI. Required: No
--help, -h	Show the help text for the specified command. Required: No

Available Subcommands

The ecs-cli command supports the following subcommands:

configure

Configures your AWS credentials, the Region to use, and the ECS cluster name to use with the Amazon ECS CLI. For more information, see ecs-cli configure.

migrate

Migrates a legacy configuration file (ECS CLI v0.6.6 and older) to the new configuration file format (ECS CLI v1.0.0 and later). The command prints a summary of the changes to be made and then asks for confirmation to proceed. For more information, see ecs-cli configure migrate.

up

Creates the ECS cluster (if it does not already exist) and the AWS resources required to set up the cluster. For more information, see ecs-cli up.

down

Deletes the AWS CloudFormation stack that was created by ecs-cli up and the associated resources. For more information, see ecs-cli down.

scale

Modifies the number of container instances in an ECS cluster. For more information, see ecs-cli scale.

logs

Retrieves container logs from CloudWatch Logs. Only valid for tasks that use the awslogs driver and has a log stream prefix specified. For more information, see ecs-cli logs.

ps

Lists all of the running containers in an ECS cluster. For more information, see ecs-cli ps.

push

Pushes an image to an Amazon ECR repository. For more information, see ecs-cli push.

pull

Pulls an image from an ECR repository. For more information, see ecs-cli pull.

images

Lists all of the running containers in an ECS cluster. For more information, see ecs-cli images.

license

Prints the LICENSE files for the Amazon ECS CLI and its dependencies. For more information, see ecs-cli license.

compose

Executes docker-compose–style commands on an ECS cluster. For more information, see ecs-cli compose.

help

Shows the help text for the specified command.