noqdev / ecsgo

Provides an interactive prompt to connect to ECS Containers using the ECS ExecuteCommand API.

ecsgo

Heavily inspired by incredibly useful gossm, this tool makes use of the new ECS ExecuteCommand API to connect to running ECS tasks. It provides an interactive prompt to select your cluster, task and container (if only one container in the task it will default to this), and opens a connection to it.

That's it! Nothing fancy.

⚠️ The ExecuteCommand API is quite new at time of creation and existing Services and Tasks may need to be updated/created with the --enable-execute-command flag via the CLI. Terraform support for this option is now available)

Prereqs

You'll need to follow the prerequisites for ECS Exec as outlined in the blog post. You can also view some additional documentation on using ECS Exec here

Installation

MacOS/Homebrew

brew tap tedsmitt/ecsgo
brew install ecsgo

Linux

wget https://github.com/tedsmitt/ecsgo/releases/download/0.2.0/ecsgo_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz
tar xzf ecsgo_*.tar.gz

Move the ecsgo binary into your $PATH

Usage

Flag	Description	Default Value
-p	Specify the profile to load the credentials	default
-c	Specify the command to be run on the container, defaults to	/bin/sh
-r	Specify the AWS region to run in	N/A

The tool also supports AWS Config/Environment Variables for configuration. If you aren't familiar with working on AWS via the CLI, you can read more about how to configure your environment here.

See it in action below

Why would I use this over something like AWS Copilot?

At this moment in time copilot only supports connecting to resources that are created and/or managed by the copilot CLI. This tool allows you to leverage ECS Exec easily with your existing resources, and plugs the gap until you are able to do the same with Copilot.