Service definition template - Amazon Elastic Container Service
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Service definition template

The following shows the JSON representation of an Amazon ECS service definition.

Amazon EC2 launch type

{
    "cluster": "", 
    "serviceName": "", 
    "taskDefinition": "", 
    "loadBalancers": [
        {
            "targetGroupArn": "", 
            "loadBalancerName": "", 
            "containerName": "", 
            "containerPort": 0
        }
    ], 
    "serviceRegistries": [
        {
            "registryArn": "", 
            "port": 0, 
            "containerName": "", 
            "containerPort": 0
        }
    ], 
    "desiredCount": 0, 
    "clientToken": "", 
    "launchType": "EC2", 
    "capacityProviderStrategy": [
        {
            "capacityProvider": "", 
            "weight": 0, 
            "base": 0
        }
    ], 
    "platformVersion": "", 
    "role": "", 
    "deploymentConfiguration": {
        "deploymentCircuitBreaker": {
            "enable": true, 
            "rollback": true
        }, 
        "maximumPercent": 0, 
        "minimumHealthyPercent": 0, 
        "alarms": {
            "alarmNames": [
                ""
            ], 
            "enable": true, 
            "rollback": true
        }
    }, 
    "placementConstraints": [
        {
            "type": "distinctInstance", 
            "expression": ""
        }
    ], 
    "placementStrategy": [
        {
            "type": "binpack", 
            "field": ""
        }
    ], 
    "networkConfiguration": {
        "awsvpcConfiguration": {
            "subnets": [
                ""
            ], 
            "securityGroups": [
                ""
            ], 
            "assignPublicIp": "DISABLED"
        }
    }, 
    "healthCheckGracePeriodSeconds": 0, 
    "schedulingStrategy": "REPLICA", 
    "deploymentController": {
        "type": "EXTERNAL"
    }, 
    "tags": [
        {
            "key": "", 
            "value": ""
        }
    ], 
    "enableECSManagedTags": true, 
    "propagateTags": "TASK_DEFINITION", 
    "enableExecuteCommand": true, 
    "availabilityZoneRebalancing": "ENABLED",
    "serviceConnectConfiguration": {
        "enabled": true, 
        "namespace": "", 
        "services": [
            {
                "portName": "", 
                "discoveryName": "", 
                "clientAliases": [
                    {
                        "port": 0, 
                        "dnsName": ""
                    }
                ], 
                "ingressPortOverride": 0
            }
        ], 
        "logConfiguration": {
            "logDriver": "journald", 
            "options": {
                "KeyName": ""
            }, 
            "secretOptions": [
                {
                    "name": "", 
                    "valueFrom": ""
                }
            ]
        }
    }, 
    "volumeConfigurations": [
        {
            "name": "", 
            "managedEBSVolume": {
                "encrypted": true, 
                "kmsKeyId": "", 
                "volumeType": "", 
                "sizeInGiB": 0, 
                "snapshotId": "", 
                "volumeInitializationRate": 0,
                "iops": 0, 
                "throughput": 0, 
                "tagSpecifications": [
                    {
                        "resourceType": "volume", 
                        "tags": [
                            {
                                "key": "", 
                                "value": ""
                            }
                        ], 
                        "propagateTags": "NONE"
                    }
                ], 
                "roleArn": "", 
                "filesystemType": ""
            }
        }
    ]
}

Fargate launch type

{
    "cluster": "", 
    "serviceName": "", 
    "taskDefinition": "", 
    "loadBalancers": [
        {
            "targetGroupArn": "", 
            "loadBalancerName": "", 
            "containerName": "", 
            "containerPort": 0
        }
    ], 
    "serviceRegistries": [
        {
            "registryArn": "", 
            "port": 0, 
            "containerName": "", 
            "containerPort": 0
        }
    ], 
    "desiredCount": 0, 
    "clientToken": "", 
    "launchType": "FARGATE", 
    "capacityProviderStrategy": [
        {
            "capacityProvider": "", 
            "weight": 0, 
            "base": 0
        }
    ], 
    "platformVersion": "", 
    "platformFamily": "",
    "role": "", 
    "deploymentConfiguration": {
        "deploymentCircuitBreaker": {
            "enable": true, 
            "rollback": true
        }, 
        "maximumPercent": 0, 
        "minimumHealthyPercent": 0, 
        "alarms": {
            "alarmNames": [
                ""
            ], 
            "enable": true, 
            "rollback": true
        }
    }, 
    "placementStrategy": [
        {
            "type": "binpack", 
            "field": ""
        }
    ], 
    "networkConfiguration": {
        "awsvpcConfiguration": {
            "subnets": [
                ""
            ], 
            "securityGroups": [
                ""
            ], 
            "assignPublicIp": "DISABLED"
        }
    }, 
    "healthCheckGracePeriodSeconds": 0, 
    "schedulingStrategy": "REPLICA", 
    "deploymentController": {
        "type": "EXTERNAL"
    }, 
    "tags": [
        {
            "key": "", 
            "value": ""
        }
    ], 
    "enableECSManagedTags": true, 
    "propagateTags": "TASK_DEFINITION", 
    "enableExecuteCommand": true, 
    "availabilityZoneRebalancing": "ENABLED",
    "serviceConnectConfiguration": {
        "enabled": true, 
        "namespace": "", 
        "services": [
            {
                "portName": "", 
                "discoveryName": "", 
                "clientAliases": [
                    {
                        "port": 0, 
                        "dnsName": ""
                    }
                ], 
                "ingressPortOverride": 0   
            }
        ], 
        "logConfiguration": {
            "logDriver": "journald", 
            "options": {
                "KeyName": ""
            }, 
            "secretOptions": [
                {
                    "name": "", 
                    "valueFrom": ""
                }
            ]
        }
    }, 
    "volumeConfigurations": [
        {
            "name": "", 
            "managedEBSVolume": {
                "encrypted": true, 
                "kmsKeyId": "", 
                "volumeType": "", 
                "sizeInGiB": 0, 
                "snapshotId": "", 
                "volumeInitializationRate": 0, 
                "iops": 0, 
                "throughput": 0, 
                "tagSpecifications": [
                    {
                        "resourceType": "volume", 
                        "tags": [
                            {
                                "key": "", 
                                "value": ""
                            }
                        ], 
                        "propagateTags": "NONE"
                    }
                ], 
                "roleArn": "", 
                "filesystemType": ""
            }
        }
    ]
}

You can create this service definition template using the following Amazon CLI command.

aws ecs create-service --generate-cli-skeleton