Running Rails Console for ECS

If you want to run any shell commands on an Amazon Cluster you are going to need AmazonCLI and JQ installed on your workstation. Then you can run

The way to successfully do this is to use Amazone ECS Exec: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/new-using-amazon-ecs-exec-access-your-containers-fargate-ec2/

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/userguide/ecs-exec.html

Syntax: aws ecs execute-command --region us-east-2 --cluster <cluster_name> --task <task_id> --container <container_name> --command "rails c" --interactive

To get our cluster_name, task_id, and container_name see our config vault. https://github.com/uclibs/config_vault

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If you have any problems then you can use Amazon ECS Exec checker to confirm dependencies.

https://github.com/aws-containers/amazon-ecs-exec-checker

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Things that have to be configured for your AWS account are