id = "amazon-ecs-cli" name = "Amazon ECS CLI" homepage = "https://github.com/aws/amazon-ecs-cli" description = "Command line interface for Amazon ECS" executables = ["ecs-cli"] [dotfiles] # AWS's archived upstream ECS CLI guide documents ~/.ecs/config and # ~/.ecs/credentials on macOS/Linux, and %LOCALAPPDATA%/ecs on Windows. # The credentials file contains ECS profile access keys; cluster config is # ordinary user configuration. # https://github.com/aws/amazon-ecs-cli # https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/authenticating-with-docker-hub-for-aws-container-services/ paths = [ "~/.ecs/config", "%LOCALAPPDATA%/ecs/config", ] secret = [ "~/.ecs/credentials", "%LOCALAPPDATA%/ecs/credentials", ] side_effect = false [commands] format = 1 label = "Amazon ECS CLI" description = "Create an ECS cluster with ecs-cli up. Compose, task and service commands are not covered." quality = "ai-draft" parser = { end_of_options = "--", interleave = "permute", long_equals = true, short_attached = false, short_bundles = false } [[commands.subcommand]] path = ["up"] label = "Create a cluster" description = "Create an ECS cluster (EC2 or Fargate). Other options such as VPC and subnets are left out." [[commands.subcommand.source]] id = "readme" kind = "help" url = "https://github.com/aws/amazon-ecs-cli/blob/master/README.md" revision = "2026-10-27" evidence = """ ecs-cli up --keypair my-key --capability-iam --size 2 ecs-cli up --cluster myCluster --empty ecs-cli up --launch-type FARGATE ecs-cli configure --cluster cluster_name --region region_name --config-name configuration_name """ [[commands.subcommand.field]] id = "cluster" label = "Cluster name" type = "string" option = ["--cluster"] sources = ["readme"] [[commands.subcommand.field]] id = "launch_type" label = "Launch type" type = "enum" choices = [{ value = "EC2", label = "EC2" }, { value = "FARGATE", label = "Fargate" }] option = ["--launch-type"] sources = ["readme"] [[commands.subcommand.field]] id = "keypair" label = "EC2 key pair" type = "string" option = ["--keypair"] sources = ["readme"] [[commands.subcommand.field]] id = "capability_iam" label = "Allow IAM resource creation" type = "boolean" option = ["--capability-iam"] sources = ["readme"] [[commands.subcommand.field]] id = "size" label = "Number of instances" type = "integer" option = ["--size"] sources = ["readme"] [[commands.subcommand.field]] id = "empty" label = "Empty cluster" description = "Create the cluster without container instances." type = "boolean" option = ["--empty"] sources = ["readme"] [[commands.subcommand.task]] id = "ec2" label = "EC2 cluster" fields = ["cluster", "keypair", "capability_iam", "size", "launch_type"] required = ["keypair"] set = { launch_type = ["EC2"], capability_iam = [true] } [[commands.subcommand.task]] id = "fargate" label = "Fargate cluster" fields = ["cluster", "launch_type"] set = { launch_type = ["FARGATE"] } [[commands.subcommand.group]] id = "basic" label = "Basic" fields = ["cluster", "launch_type", "keypair", "capability_iam", "size", "empty"]