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stop_task

Operation

stop_task async

stop_task(input: StopTaskInput, plugins: list[Plugin] | None = None) -> StopTaskOutput

Stops a running task. Any tags associated with the task will be deleted.

When you call StopTask on a task, the equivalent of docker stop is issued to the containers running in the task. This results in a stop signal value and a default 30-second timeout, after which the SIGKILL value is sent and the containers are forcibly stopped. This signal can be defined in your container image with the STOPSIGNAL instruction and will default to SIGTERM. If the container handles the SIGTERM value gracefully and exits within 30 seconds from receiving it, no SIGKILL value is sent.

For Windows containers, POSIX signals do not work and runtime stops the container by sending a CTRL_SHUTDOWN_EVENT. For more information, see [Unable to react to graceful shutdown of (Windows) container

25982](https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/25982) on GitHub.

Note

The default 30-second timeout can be configured on the Amazon ECS container agent with the ECS_CONTAINER_STOP_TIMEOUT variable. For more information, see Amazon ECS Container Agent Configuration in the Amazon Elastic Container Service Developer Guide.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
input StopTaskInput

An instance of StopTaskInput.

required
plugins list[Plugin] | None

A list of callables that modify the configuration dynamically. Changes made by these plugins only apply for the duration of the operation execution and will not affect any other operation invocations.

None

Returns:

Type Description
StopTaskOutput

An instance of StopTaskOutput.

Input

StopTaskInput dataclass

Bases: _SerdeShape

Attributes

cluster class-attribute instance-attribute
cluster: str | None = ...

The short name or full Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the cluster that hosts the task to stop. If you do not specify a cluster, the default cluster is assumed.

reason class-attribute instance-attribute
reason: str | None = ...

An optional message specified when a task is stopped. For example, if you're using a custom scheduler, you can use this parameter to specify the reason for stopping the task here, and the message appears in subsequent DescribeTasks> API operations on this task.

task class-attribute instance-attribute
task: str | None = ...

Thefull Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the task.

Output

StopTaskOutput dataclass

Bases: _SerdeShape

Attributes

response_metadata class-attribute instance-attribute
response_metadata: ResponseMetadata = ...

Metadata about the response that produced this output. Use this to recover the request identifiers a service's support team needs in order to investigate a call. Members of the metadata are individually optional.

task class-attribute instance-attribute
task: Task | None = ...

The task that was stopped.