LambCI ECS cluster and Docker image

More documentation should be coming soon, but to get up and running quickly, launch the cluster.template file in CloudFormation and give your stack a name like lambci-ecs. You can also use cluster.spot.template to use ECS under Spot Instances.

(You should have already created a LambCI stack as documented at https://github.com/lambci/lambci)

This will create an auto-scaling group and an ECS cluster and task definition, which you can find in the AWS console from Services > EC2 Container Service

LambCI-ECS will look for a Dockerfile.test is in the root of the repository. This is where you put your test/build instructions.

LambCI configuration

You'll need to give the Lambda function in your LambCI stack access to run the task, so will need add to IAM permissions something like this:

{
    "Statement": {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": "ecs:RunTask",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ecs:*:*:task-definition/lambci-ecs-BuildTask-1PVABCDEFKFT"
    }
}

This block should be added as part of the LambdaExecution > Properties > Policies section of the lambci template.

Replace the Resource value with the name of the ECS task definition created in your lambci-ecs stack.

Project configuration

Then in the project you want to build using ECS, you'll need to ensure the following LambCI config settings are given:

{
  docker: {
    cluster: 'lambci-ecs-Cluster-1TZABCDEF987',
    task: 'lambci-ecs-BuildTask-1PVABCDEFKFT',
  }
}

(replacing with the actual names of your ECS cluster and task)

These are normal LambCI config settings which you can set in your .lambci.js[on] file or in the config DB.