Creating a Cluster with an EC2 Task Using the Amazon ECS CLI

Step 1: Configure the Amazon ECS CLI

ecs-cli configure --cluster ec2-tutorial --default-launch-type EC2 --config-name ec2-tutorial --region us-west-2

ecs-cli configure profile --access-key AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID --secret-key AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY --profile-name ec2-tutorial-profile

Step 2: Create Your Cluster

ecs-cli up --keypair id_rsa --capability-iam --size 2 --instance-type t2.medium --cluster-config ec2-tutorial --ecs-profile ec2-tutorial-profile

Step 3: Create a Compose File

docker-compose.yml

version: '3'
services:
  web:
    image: amazon/amazon-ecs-sample
    ports:
      - "80:80"
    logging:
      driver: awslogs
      options: 
        awslogs-group: ec2-tutorial
        awslogs-region: us-west-2
        awslogs-stream-prefix: web
        
ecs-params.yml

version: 1
task_definition:
  services:
    web:
      cpu_shares: 100
      mem_limit: 524288000


Step 4: Deploy the Compose File to a Cluster 

ecs-cli compose up --create-log-groups --cluster-config ec2-tutorial --ecs-profile ec2-tutorial-profile

Step 5: View the Running Containers on a Cluster 

ecs-cli ps --cluster-config ec2-tutorial --ecs-profile ec2-tutorial-profile


Step 6: Scale the Tasks on a Cluster

ecs-cli compose scale 2 --cluster-config ec2-tutorial --ecs-profile ec2-tutorial-profile

ecs-cli ps --cluster-config ec2-tutorial --ecs-profile ec2-tutorial-profile


Step 7: Create an ECS Service from a Compose File 
ecs-cli compose down --cluster-config ec2-tutorial --ecs-profile ec2-tutorial-profile

ecs-cli compose service up --cluster-config ec2-tutorial --ecs-profile ec2-tutorial-profile

Step 8: View your Web Application 
Enter the IP address for the task in your web browser and you should see a webpage that displays the Simple PHP App web application. 

Step 9: Clean Up

ecs-cli compose service rm --cluster-config ec2-tutorial --ecs-profile ec2-tutorial-profile

ecs-cli down --force --cluster-config ec2-tutorial --ecs-profile ec2-tutorial-profile



Source : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/ecs-cli-tutorial-ec2.html