Amazon ECS is supported, which allows RancherOS EC2 instances to join your cluster.

Pre-Requisites

Before launching RancherOS EC2 instances, the ECS Container Instance IAM Role will need to have been created. This ecsInstanceRole will need to be used when launching EC2 instances. If you have been using ECS, you created this role if you followed the ECS “Get Started” interactive guide.

Launching an instance with ECS

RancherOS makes it easy to join your ECS cluster. The ECS agent is a system service that is enabled in the ECS enabled AMI. There may be other RancherOS AMIs that don’t have the ECS agent enabled by default, but it can easily be added in the user data on any RancherOS AMI.

When launching the RancherOS AMI, you’ll need to specify the IAM Role and Advanced Details -> User Data in the Configure Instance Details step.

For the IAM Role, you’ll need to be sure to select the ECS Container Instance IAM role.

For the User Data, you’ll need to pass in the cloud-config file.

#cloud-config
rancher:
  environment:
    ECS_CLUSTER: your-ecs-cluster-name
    # Note: You will need to add this variable, if using awslogs for ECS task.
    ECS_AVAILABLE_LOGGING_DRIVERS: |-
      ["json-file","awslogs"]
# If you have selected a RancherOS AMI that does not have ECS enabled by default,
# you'll need to enable the system service for the ECS agent.
  services_include:
    amazon-ecs-agent: true

Version

By default, the ECS agent will be using the latest tag for the amazon-ecs-agent image. In v0.5.0, we introduced the ability to select which version of the amazon-ecs-agent.

To select the version, you can update your cloud-config file.

#cloud-config
rancher:
  environment:
    ECS_CLUSTER: your-ecs-cluster-name
    # Note: You will need to make sure to include the colon in front of the version.
    ECS_AGENT_VERSION: :v1.9.0
    # If you have selected a RancherOS AMI that does not have ECS enabled by default,
    # you'll need to enable the system service for the ECS agent.
  services_include:
    amazon-ecs-agent: true


Note: The : must be in front of the version tag in order for the ECS image to be tagged correctly.

Amazon ECS enabled AMIs

Latest Release: v1.5.6

Region Type AMI
eu-north-1 HVM - ECS enabled ami-0539b842146882049
ap-south-1 HVM - ECS enabled ami-0d3b8d8f26c689b4f
eu-west-3 HVM - ECS enabled ami-0fea51d2e82d132a0
eu-west-2 HVM - ECS enabled ami-00c3a19135715c851
eu-west-1 HVM - ECS enabled ami-012c49dfd6efe2b69
ap-northeast-2 HVM - ECS enabled ami-02c46f0bcf41b4979
ap-northeast-1 HVM - ECS enabled ami-0354daa9f30fe60e6
sa-east-1 HVM - ECS enabled ami-00856c117fa05835f
ca-central-1 HVM - ECS enabled ami-0b0cb5188439bf169
ap-southeast-1 HVM - ECS enabled ami-0d8a0ed617d75bacc
ap-southeast-2 HVM - ECS enabled ami-029cebde25901dcc9
eu-central-1 HVM - ECS enabled ami-0d513a54a3e67e38e
us-east-1 HVM - ECS enabled ami-0f5cc7a532c3171c3
us-east-2 HVM - ECS enabled ami-030615e199666fd4b
us-west-1 HVM - ECS enabled ami-0b530a841750e3315
us-west-2 HVM - ECS enabled ami-0f1e06359f24f6480