Amazon ECS "Render Env in Task Definition" Action for GitHub Actions

Inserts a environment variable into an Amazon ECS task definition JSON file, creating a new task definition file.

Table of Contents

• Amazon ECS "Render Env in Task Definition" Action for GitHub Actions
• Usage
• License Summary

Usage

To insert the value production as an environment variable NODE_ENV in the task definition file, and then deploy the edited task definition file to ECS:

- name: Render env in Amazon ECS task definition
  id: render-env
  uses: tarepan/amazon-ecs-render-task-definition-env@v2
  with:
    task-definition: task-definition.json
    container-name: envContainer
    env-name: NODE_ENV
    env-value: production

- name: Register to Amazon ECS
  uses: tarepan/amazon-ecs-register-task-definition@v2
  with:
    task-definition: ${{ steps.render-env.outputs.task-definition }}

See action.yml for the full documentation for this action's inputs and outputs.

License Summary

This code is made available under the MIT license.