[SOLVED] Ecs command not found

Issue

I am using Amazon Linux AMI Ec2 instance.When I try to deploy task getting error like ecs not found

bash-4.2$ ecs deploy demo-cluster demo-service
bash: ecs: command not found

When I try to start ecs its already running

[ec2-user@ip-152-31-44-88 ~]$ sudo start ecs
start: Job is already running: ecs

Solution

To my knowledge, there is no such command installed on ECS ready AMIs.

Some observations regarding your question:

1. The ecs service you see running is the Amazon ECS Container Agent. This is a system level service, not a command line cli. See https://github.com/aws/amazon-ecs-agent.

2. Yes the AWS CLI is installed, but it is called via the aws command, not the ecs command.

3. There is a AWS supported ecs cli, but it is invoked with the ecs-cli command, and has no deployment option. See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/ECS_CLI_reference.html

4. The only tool that I found that supports the command ecs deploy is a 3rd party tool on GitHub. See https://github.com/fabfuel/ecs-deploy. As this is a 3rd party tool, you need to nstall it on the instance or on your local computer.

Answered By - Rodrigo M