Run a standalone task in the classic Amazon ECS console

To run a standalone task using the classic console

1. Open the Amazon ECS classic console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/ecs/.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Task Definitions and select the task definition to run.

   • To run the latest revision of a task definition, select the box to the left of the task definition to run.

   • To run an earlier revision of a task definition, select the task definition to view all active revisions. Last, select the revision to run.

3. Choose Actions, Run Task.

4. On the Run Task page, complete the following steps.

   1. Choose either a capacity provider strategy or a launch type.

      • To use a Capacity provider strategy and choose Switch to capacity provider strategy. Then, choose whether your task uses the default capacity provider strategy that's defined for the cluster or a custom capacity provider strategy. A capacity provider must be associated with the cluster to be used in a custom capacity provider strategy. For more information, see Amazon ECS capacity providers.

      • To use a Launch type, choose Switch to launch type and select either EC2 or EXTERNAL. For more information about launch types, see Amazon ECS launch types.

   2. For Cluster, choose the cluster to use.

   3. For Number of tasks, enter the number of tasks to launch with this task definition.

   4. For Task group, enter the name of the task group.

5. If your task definition uses the awsvpc network mode, complete these substeps. Otherwise, proceed to the next step.

   1. For Cluster VPC, choose the VPC that your container instances reside in.

   2. For Subnets, choose the available subnets for your task.

      Important

      Only private subnets are supported for the awsvpc network mode. Tasks don't receive public IP addresses. Therefore, a NAT gateway is required for outbound internet access, and inbound internet traffic is routed through a load balancer.

   3. For Security groups, a security group was created for your task that allows HTTP traffic from the internet (0.0.0.0/0). To edit the name or the rules of this security group, choose Edit and then modify your security group settings. Do the same if you want to choose an existing security group.

6. (Optional) For Task Placement, you can specify how tasks are placed using task placement strategies and constraints. Choose from the following options:

   • AZ Balanced Spread - Distribute tasks across Availability Zones and across container instances in the Availability Zone.

   • AZ Balanced BinPack - Distribute tasks across Availability Zones and across container instances with the least available memory.

   • BinPack - Distribute tasks based on the least available amount of CPU or memory.

   • One Task Per Host - Place, at most, one task from the service on each container instance.

   • Custom - Define your own task placement strategy.

   For more information, see Amazon ECS task placement.

7. (Optional) To send command, environment variable, task IAM role, or task execution role overrides to one or more containers in your task definition, choose Advanced Options and complete the following steps:

   Note

   If you intend to use the parameter values from your task definition, you don't need to specify overrides. These fields are only used to override the values that are specified in the task definition.

   1. For Task Role Override, choose an IAM role for this task to override the task IAM role that's specified in the task definition. For more information, see Task IAM role.

      Only roles with the ecs-tasks.amazonaws.com trust relationship are displayed. For instructions on how to create an IAM role for your tasks, see Creating an IAM role and policy for your tasks.

   2. For Task Execution Role Override, choose a task execution role to override the task execution role specified in the task definition. For more information, see Amazon ECS task execution IAM role.

8. (Optional) To override the container commands and environment variables, expand Container Overrides, and then expand the container.

   • To send a command to the container other than the task definition command, for Command override, enter the Docker command.

     For more information about the Docker run command, see Docker Run reference in the Docker Reference Manual.

   • To add an environment variable, choose Add Environment Variable. For Key, enter the name of your environment variable. For Value, enter a string value for your environment value (without the surrounding double quotation marks (" ")).

     Amazon surrounds the strings with double quotation marks (" ") and passes the string to the container in the following format:

     MY_ENV_VAR="This variable contains a string."

9. In the Task tagging configuration section, complete the following steps:

   1. Select Enable ECS managed tags if you want Amazon ECS to automatically tag each task with the Amazon ECS managed tags. For more information, see Tagging Your Amazon ECS Resources.

   2. For Propagate tags from, select one of the following:

      • Do not propagate – This option will not propagate any tags.

      • Task Definitions – This option will propagate the tags specified in the task definition to the task.

        Note

        If you specify a tag with the same key in the Tags section, it will override the tag propagated from the task definition.

10. In the Tags section, specify the key and value for each tag to associate with the task. For more information, see Tagging Your Amazon ECS Resources.

11. Review your task information and choose Run Task.

    Note

    If your task moves from the PENDING to the STOPPED status, your task might be stopping because of an error. This is also the case if it displays a PENDING status and then disappears from the listed tasks. For more information, see Checking stopped tasks for errors in the troubleshooting section.