Creating a scheduled task using the Amazon CLI

To create a scheduled task (Amazon CLI)

1. Create the CloudWatch Events rule. This example creates a rule named MyRule1 that's triggered every day at 12:00pm UTC. You can change the time so that it's more convenient for verifying the schedule results. The first time placeholder is minutes and the second placeholder is UTC hours. For other examples of rule expressions, see Schedule Expressions for Rules in the Amazon CloudWatch Events User Guide.

   aws events put-rule \
        --schedule-expression "cron(0 12 * * ? *)" --name MyRule1

2. Add the details of your Amazon ECS cluster and task definition as a target for the CloudWatch Events rule. Specify the cluster and task definition using the full Amazon Resource Name (ARN). The launch type and network configuration must be defined either in the task definition or the put-targets command line. When using Fargate, the network configuration must be defined as awsvpc.

   In this example, the target is defined as the default cluster in which to run a Fargate task based on the first-run-task-definition:1 task definition. A count of one task is scheduled to run according to MyRule1. An ecsEventsRole IAM role is assigned to the target. The launch type is FARGATE and the network configuration is defined as awsvpc with a security groups and a public subnet. The command is run from the ECS instance in the default cluster. For more information about put-targets, see put-targets. The cluster and task definition must already be created. Otherwise, you receive an error.

   Create a local file named scheduledtask.json with the following contents:

   [{
           "Id": "1",
           "Arn": "arn:aws:ecs:us-east-1:123456789012:cluster/default",
           "RoleArn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/ecsEventsRole",
           "EcsParameters": {
                   "TaskDefinitionArn": "arn:aws:ecs:us-east-1:123456789012:task-definition/first-run-task-definition:1",
                   "TaskCount": 1,
                   "LaunchType": "FARGATE",
                   "NetworkConfiguration": {
                           "awsvpcConfiguration": {
                                   "Subnets": ["subnet1"],
                                   "SecurityGroups": ["secgroup1"],
                                   "AssignPublicIp": "ENABLED"
                           }
                   },
                   "PlatformVersion": "LATEST"
           }
   }]

   Use the following command to create the target:

   aws events put-targets \
        --rule "MyRule1" \
        --targets file://scheduledtask.json