Specify a Docker volume in an Amazon ECS task definition - Amazon Elastic Container Service
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Specify a Docker volume in an Amazon ECS task definition

Before your containers can use data volumes, you must specify the volume and mount point configurations in your task definition. This section describes the volume configuration for a container. For tasks that use a Docker volume, specify a dockerVolumeConfiguration. For tasks that use a bind mount host volume, specify a host and optional sourcePath.

The following task definition JSON shows the syntax for the volumes and mountPoints objects for a container.

{
    "containerDefinitions": [
        {
            "mountPoints": [
                {
                    "sourceVolume": "string",
                    "containerPath": "/path/to/mount_volume",
                    "readOnly": boolean
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "volumes": [
        {
            "name": "string",
            "dockerVolumeConfiguration": {
                "scope": "string",
                "autoprovision": boolean,
                "driver": "string",
                "driverOpts": {
                    "key": "value"
                },
                "labels": {
                    "key": "value"
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}
name

Type: String

Required: No

The name of the volume. Up to 255 letters (uppercase and lowercase), numbers, hyphens (-), and underscores (_) are allowed. This name is referenced in the sourceVolume parameter of the container definition mountPoints object.

dockerVolumeConfiguration

Type: DockerVolumeConfiguration Object

Required: No

This parameter is specified when using Docker volumes. Docker volumes are supported only when running tasks on EC2 instances. Windows containers support only the use of the local driver. To use bind mounts, specify a host instead.

scope

Type: String

Valid Values: task | shared

Required: No

The scope for the Docker volume, which determines its lifecycle. Docker volumes that are scoped to a task are automatically provisioned when the task starts and destroyed when the task stops. Docker volumes that are scoped as shared persist after the task stops.

autoprovision

Type: Boolean

Default value: false

Required: No

If this value is true, the Docker volume is created if it doesn't already exist. This field is used only if the scope is shared. If the scope is task, then this parameter must be omitted.

driver

Type: String

Required: No

The Docker volume driver to use. The driver value must match the driver name provided by Docker because this name is used for task placement. If the driver was installed by using the Docker plugin CLI, use docker plugin ls to retrieve the driver name from your container instance. If the driver was installed by using another method, use Docker plugin discovery to retrieve the driver name.

driverOpts

Type: String

Required: No

A map of Docker driver-specific options to pass through. This parameter maps to DriverOpts in the Create a volume section of Docker.

labels

Type: String

Required: No

Custom metadata to add to your Docker volume.

mountPoints

Type: Object array

Required: No

The mount points for the data volumes in your container. This parameter maps to Volumes in the creat-container Docker API and the --volume option to docker run.

Windows containers can mount whole directories on the same drive as $env:ProgramData. Windows containers cannot mount directories on a different drive, and mount points cannot be used across drives. You must specify mount points to attach an Amazon EBS volume directly to an Amazon ECS task.

sourceVolume

Type: String

Required: Yes, when mountPoints are used

The name of the volume to mount.

containerPath

Type: String

Required: Yes, when mountPoints are used

The path in the container where the volume will be mounted.

readOnly

Type: Boolean

Required: No

If this value is true, the container has read-only access to the volume. If this value is false, then the container can write to the volume. The default value is false.