AWS CloudFormation Template for CoreOS stable including AWS ECS Agent. Provide ECS - Cluster and IAM Role, otherwise the ECS service will not work

coreos-ecs-agent-cloudformation.template

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09",
  "Description": "CoreOS on EC2: http://coreos.com/docs/running-coreos/cloud-providers/ec2/",
  "Mappings" : {
      "RegionMap" : {

          "eu-central-1" : {
              "AMI" : "ami-487d4d55"
          },

          "ap-northeast-1" : {
              "AMI" : "ami-decfc0df"
          },

          "sa-east-1" : {
              "AMI" : "ami-cb04b4d6"
          },

          "ap-southeast-2" : {
              "AMI" : "ami-d1e981eb"
          },

          "ap-southeast-1" : {
              "AMI" : "ami-83406fd1"
          },

          "us-east-1" : {
              "AMI" : "ami-705d3d18"
          },

          "us-west-2" : {
              "AMI" : "ami-4dd4857d"
          },

          "us-west-1" : {
              "AMI" : "ami-17fae852"
          },

          "eu-west-1" : {
              "AMI" : "ami-783a840f"
          }

      }
  },
  "Parameters": {
    "InstanceType" : {
      "Description" : "EC2 HVM instance type (m3.medium, etc).",
      "Type" : "String",
      "Default" : "t2.micro",
      "ConstraintDescription" : "Must be a valid EC2 HVM instance type."
    },
    "ClusterSize": {
      "Default": "3",
      "MinValue": "3",
      "MaxValue": "12",
      "Description": "Number of nodes in cluster (3-12).",
      "Type": "Number"
    },
    "DiscoveryURL": {
      "Description": "An unique etcd cluster discovery URL. Grab a new token from https://discovery.etcd.io/new",
      "Type": "String"
    },
    "AdvertisedIPAddress": {
      "Description": "Use 'private' if your etcd cluster is within one region or 'public' if it spans regions or cloud providers.",
      "Default": "private",
      "AllowedValues": ["private", "public"],
      "Type": "String"
    },
    "AllowSSHFrom": {
      "Description": "The net block (CIDR) that SSH is available to.",
      "Default": "0.0.0.0/0",
      "Type": "String"
    },
    "KeyPair" : {
      "Description" : "The name of an EC2 Key Pair to allow SSH access to the instance.",
      "Type" : "String"
    },
    "IAMRole" : {
      "Description" : "The name of the ECS Agent IAM Role.",
      "Type" : "String"
    },
    "DockerClusterName" : {
      "Description" : "The Name of your ECS Docker Cluster.",
      "Type": "String"
    }
  },
  "Resources": {
    "CoreOSSecurityGroup": {
      "Type": "AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup",
      "Properties": {
        "GroupDescription": "CoreOS SecurityGroup",
        "SecurityGroupIngress": [
          {"IpProtocol": "tcp", "FromPort": "22", "ToPort": "22", "CidrIp": {"Ref": "AllowSSHFrom"}}
        ]
      }
    },
    "Ingress4001": {
      "Type": "AWS::EC2::SecurityGroupIngress",
      "Properties": {
        "GroupName": {"Ref": "CoreOSSecurityGroup"}, "IpProtocol": "tcp", "FromPort": "4001", "ToPort": "4001", "SourceSecurityGroupId": {
          "Fn::GetAtt" : [ "CoreOSSecurityGroup", "GroupId" ]
        }
      }
    },
    "Ingress7001": {
      "Type": "AWS::EC2::SecurityGroupIngress",
      "Properties": {
        "GroupName": {"Ref": "CoreOSSecurityGroup"}, "IpProtocol": "tcp", "FromPort": "7001", "ToPort": "7001", "SourceSecurityGroupId": {
          "Fn::GetAtt" : [ "CoreOSSecurityGroup", "GroupId" ]
        }
      }
    },
    "CoreOSServerAutoScale": {
      "Type": "AWS::AutoScaling::AutoScalingGroup",
      "Properties": {
        "AvailabilityZones": {"Fn::GetAZs": ""},
        "LaunchConfigurationName": {"Ref": "CoreOSServerLaunchConfig"},
        "MinSize": "3",
        "MaxSize": "12",
        "DesiredCapacity": {"Ref": "ClusterSize"},
        "Tags": [
            {"Key": "Name", "Value": { "Ref" : "AWS::StackName" }, "PropagateAtLaunch": true}
        ]
      }
    },
    "CoreOSServerLaunchConfig": {
      "Type": "AWS::AutoScaling::LaunchConfiguration",
      "Properties": {
        "ImageId" : { "Fn::FindInMap" : [ "RegionMap", { "Ref" : "AWS::Region" }, "AMI" ]},
        "InstanceType": {"Ref": "InstanceType"},
        "KeyName": {"Ref": "KeyPair"},
        "SecurityGroups": [{"Ref": "CoreOSSecurityGroup"}],
        "IamInstanceProfile" : { "Ref": "IAMRole"}, 
        "UserData" : { "Fn::Base64":
          { "Fn::Join": [ "", [
            "#cloud-config\n\n",
            "coreos:\n",
            "  etcd:\n",
            "    discovery: ", { "Ref": "DiscoveryURL" }, "\n",
            "    addr: $", { "Ref": "AdvertisedIPAddress" }, "_ipv4:4001\n",
            "    peer-addr: $", { "Ref": "AdvertisedIPAddress" }, "_ipv4:7001\n\n",
            "  units:\n",
            "    - name: etcd.service\n",
            "      command: start\n",
            "    - name: fleet.service\n",
            "      command: start\n",
            "    - name: amazon-ecs-agent.service\n",
            "      command: start\n",
            "      content: |\n",
            "       [Unit]\n",
            "       Description=Amazon ECS Agent\n",
            "       After=docker.service\n",
            "       Requires=docker.service\n\n",
            "       [Service]\n",
            "       Environment=ECS_CLUSTER=", { "Ref": "DockerClusterName" },"\n",
            "       Environment=ECS_LOGLEVEL=info\n",
            "       ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/docker kill ecs-agent\n",
            "       ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/docker rm ecs-agent\n",
            "       ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/docker pull amazon/amazon-ecs-agent\n",
            "       ExecStart=/usr/bin/docker run --name ecs-agent --env=ECS_CLUSTER=${ECS_CLUSTER} --env=ECS_LOGLEVEL=${ECS_LOGLEVEL} --publish=127.0.0.1:51678:51678 --volume=/var/log/ecs/:/log --volume=/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock amazon/amazon-ecs-agent:latest\n",
            "       ExecStop=/usr/bin/docker stop ecs-agent\n"
            ] ]
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Thanks for sharing this. Pretty rad! I improved it with role creation with my fork.

https://gist.github.com/kixorz/13f7c42c750a24aa5c01