{
  "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": {
    "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
    },
    "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.",
        "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\necs-cli up --cluster myCluster --empty\necs-cli up --launch-type FARGATE\necs-cli configure --cluster cluster_name --region region_name --config-name configuration_name\n"
          }
        ],
        "field": [
          {
            "id": "cluster",
            "label": "Cluster name",
            "type": "string",
            "option": [
              "--cluster"
            ],
            "sources": [
              "readme"
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "launch_type",
            "label": "Launch type",
            "type": "enum",
            "choices": [
              {
                "value": "EC2",
                "label": "EC2"
              },
              {
                "value": "FARGATE",
                "label": "Fargate"
              }
            ],
            "option": [
              "--launch-type"
            ],
            "sources": [
              "readme"
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "keypair",
            "label": "EC2 key pair",
            "type": "string",
            "option": [
              "--keypair"
            ],
            "sources": [
              "readme"
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "capability_iam",
            "label": "Allow IAM resource creation",
            "type": "boolean",
            "option": [
              "--capability-iam"
            ],
            "sources": [
              "readme"
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "size",
            "label": "Number of instances",
            "type": "integer",
            "option": [
              "--size"
            ],
            "sources": [
              "readme"
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "empty",
            "label": "Empty cluster",
            "description": "Create the cluster without container instances.",
            "type": "boolean",
            "option": [
              "--empty"
            ],
            "sources": [
              "readme"
            ]
          }
        ],
        "task": [
          {
            "id": "ec2",
            "label": "EC2 cluster",
            "fields": [
              "cluster",
              "keypair",
              "capability_iam",
              "size",
              "launch_type"
            ],
            "required": [
              "keypair"
            ],
            "set": {
              "launch_type": [
                "EC2"
              ],
              "capability_iam": [
                true
              ]
            }
          },
          {
            "id": "fargate",
            "label": "Fargate cluster",
            "fields": [
              "cluster",
              "launch_type"
            ],
            "set": {
              "launch_type": [
                "FARGATE"
              ]
            }
          }
        ],
        "group": [
          {
            "id": "basic",
            "label": "Basic",
            "fields": [
              "cluster",
              "launch_type",
              "keypair",
              "capability_iam",
              "size",
              "empty"
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}