Support for docker-compose like YAML file for task definitions

[eldos-dl]

The current JSON style task definition format is making the definitions unnecessarily lengthy and difficult to maintain. Can we get support for docker-compose like task definitions?

[samuelkarp]

Thanks for the feedback! Task Definitions can currently be expressed as JSON in the CLI or as objects in our SDKs. We're also aware of an open-source container-transform project which converts between Task Definition and docker-compose representations.

Since this isn't really a question about the Agent I'm going to close the issue here, but I have taken your feature request into our internal tracking system.

[harishkashyap]

+1 to @eldos-dl request. task definitions are just lengthy, cumbersome. I would suggest that AWS team expands on container-transform and runs it internally so we only have to submit the docker-compose.yml file and everything is done at your end.

[wyaeld]

@samuelkarp Now that cloudformation supports YAML, can you offer feedback on whether ECS is getting any closer to it?

I know its not agent specific, but there isn't another ecs project with an issue tracker...