How do i create a aws ecs cluster using aws fargate on the cli?

[petulia3478]

Find out more on AWS Fargate: https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/

This assumes you have your api keys setup already. It is the same keys used for aws cli.

Create a cluster configuration.

$ ecs-cli configure --cluster frontend --region us-east-1 --default-launch-type FARGATE --config-name fronend_config
INFO[0000] Saved ECS CLI cluster configuration ec2_frontend_config.

This tells ecs to use the region and launch type. This is stored under .ecs/config

Start the ecs cluster.

$ ecs-cli up
INFO[0000] Created cluster                               cluster=ecscluster region=us-east-1
INFO[0000] Waiting for your cluster resources to be created... 
INFO[0000] Cloudformation stack status                   stackStatus=CREATE_IN_PROGRESS
VPC created: vpc-x
Subnet created: subnet-x
Subnet created: subnet-x
Cluster creation succeeded.

After running ecs-cli up command, the cluster is created.

List the ecs clusters.

$ aws ecs list-clusters