Whether ECR and ECS can work without docker ?

[LeTrungNguyen1703]

I can't install Docker due to policy, but I need to work with ECR and ECS. Can I get by with just pip install ministack, or is Docker strictly required for this workflow? @Nahuel990

[Nahuel990]

Hi @LeTrungNguyen1703 — yes, pip install ministack runs without Docker.

• ECR: works fully without Docker on the ministack side.
  (Pushing real images from your machine to ministack's ECR would still need a container runtime client, but ministack itself doesn't.)

• ECS: control plane works without Docker — CreateCluster, RegisterTaskDefinition, RunTask, DescribeTasks, services, etc. all behave correctly.
  The one thing that needs Docker is actually executing the task container at RunTask. Without Docker, the task is recorded but no container starts.

If your workflow is IaC / SDK testing (Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation, boto3 calls), you're fine without Docker.

If you need the task container to actually run and produce output, you'd need Docker for that part.

[LeTrungNguyen1703]

thank my friend 👍