Scripts for running Docker Containers on Amazon ECS

This is basically just a bunch of helper snippets/scripts/POCs to help you get your Docker Containers up and running on Amazon ECS (EC2 Container Service).

Get it running

1. Install and setup the AWS CLI tools on you local development machine
2. Install the ECS Task Definition: aws ecs register-task-definition --cli-input-json file://dockerenv-task.json
3. Run the task via the ECS Console

Check the log output

To check the output from the scripts, ssh to your EC2 instance used by ECS. Then find the (stopped) container ID with this command: docker ps -a

E.g. the container ID could be c419b392fad5

Then check the logs: docker logs c419b392fad5

Sample output:

The CONTAINER_IP: 172.17.0.3
The EC2_PRIVATE_IP: 10.0.1.173

Why?

I created this because I needed to know the private IP address of the EC2 instance hosting my Docker Containers.

In particular I needed this to be able to start a Datomic Transactor in the correct way.

What else?

PRs accepted!