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FAQ

Frequently asked questions about ECS with Cloud Posse's reference architecture.

How do I add a new service to an existing ECS cluster?​

Add a new instance of the ecs-service component to your stack configuration. The component will automatically detect the ECS cluster and add the service to it.

How can I add AWS Policies to my ECS Tasks?​

Use the task_policy_arns to attach policies to individual tasks, this allows those tasks to access AWS resources.

task_policy_arns:
  - arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AmazonS3FullAccess

How can I inject secrets into my ECS Service?​

Use the map_secrets variable which maps a environment variable key to an SSM param store key. This will inject the value of the SSM param store key into the environment variable.

map_secrets:
  SECRET_KEY: /my/secret/key

How can we create Self Hosted Runners for GitHub with ECS?​

If we are not deploying EKS for our platform, it doesn't make much sense to configure EKS solely for self-hosted runners. Instead, we deploy the Philips Labs Action Runners and connect those instances to GitHub.

For more on self-hosted GitHub Runners, see github-runners.