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easyecs
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EasyECS is an innovative container deployment tool designed to streamline the process of launching containers within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Container Service (ECS) Fargate. With its user-friendly interface and automated workflows, EasyECS empowers developers to efficiently manage containerized applications on the AWS cloud platform. This tool is similar to what skaffold can be in Kubernetes environment.

pip install easyecs
Usage: easyecs [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Options:
--help Show this message and exit.
Commands:
delete Delete a stack
dev Run a stack in development mode
run Run a stack
metadata:
appname: "helloworld"
role:
managed_policies: []
statements:
- sid: "ssmactions"
resources: ["*"]
actions: ["ssmmessages:CreateControlChannel", "ssmmessages:CreateDataChannel", "ssmmessages:OpenControlChannel", "ssmmessages:OpenDataChannel", "secretsmanager:*"]
effect: "Allow"
execution_role:
managed_policies: ["service-role/AmazonECSTaskExecutionRolePolicy", "AmazonEC2ContainerRegistryReadOnly"]
statements:
- sid: "secretmanageractions"
resources: ["*"]
actions: ["secretsmanager:GetSecretValue"]
effect: "Allow"
- sid: "s3actions"
resources: ["*"]
actions: ["s3:*"]
effect: "Allow"
task_definition:
resources:
limits:
cpu: 2
memory: 4096
containers:
- name: helloworld
image: docker.io/library/debian
user: root
tty: true
command: "/bin/bash"
resources:
limits:
cpu: 1
memory: 2048
volumes:
- "./easyecs:/root/easyecs"
- "./ecs.yml:/root/ecs.yml"
port_forward:
- "8000:8000"
env: []
secrets: []
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We found that easyecs demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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