AWS ECS Exec Sample Script for /bin/sh Login

Tadashi Shigeoka ·  Tue, May 25, 2021

I’ll introduce a sample script for one-shot login to AWS ECS Exec with /bin/sh.

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AWS ECS Exec Sample Script for /bin/sh Login

Please set the environment variables AWS_ECS_EXEC_PROFILE, AWS_ECS_EXEC_CLUSTER, AWS_ECS_EXEC_SERVICE_NAME to your own values before use.

AWS_ECS_EXEC_PROFILE="your-aws-profice"
AWS_ECS_EXEC_CLUSTER="your-ecs-cluster"
AWS_ECS_EXEC_SERVICE_NAME="your-service-name"

# Display ECS Task list and set Task Id to environment variable AWS_ECS_EXEC_TASK

aws ecs list-tasks \\
  --profile $AWS_ECS_EXEC_PROFILE \\
  --cluster $AWS_ECS_EXEC_CLUSTER \\
  --service-name $AWS_ECS_EXEC_SERVICE_NAME \\
  --output text \\
  | sed -n 1p \\
  | grep -oE "[^/]+$" \\
  | read AWS_ECS_EXEC_TASK;

# Login to container with environment variable AWS_ECS_EXEC_TASK using AWS ECS Exec

aws ecs execute-command \\
  --profile $AWS_ECS_EXEC_PROFILE \\
  --cluster $AWS_ECS_EXEC_CLUSTER \\
  --task $AWS_ECS_EXEC_TASK \\
  --interactive \\
  --command "/bin/sh"

That’s all from the Gemba about creating a sample script for one-shot login to AWS ECS Exec.

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