AWS-UpdateAmazonECSAgent - AWS Systems Manager Automation runbook reference

AWS-UpdateAmazonECSAgent

Description

The AWS-UpdateAmazonECSAgent runbook updates the Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) agent on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance you specify. This runbook only supports Amazon Linux and Amazon Linux 2 instances.

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Document type

Automation

Owner

Amazon

Platforms

Linux

Parameters

  • AutomationAssumeRole

    Type: String

    Description: (Optional) The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role that allows Systems Manager Automation to perform the actions on your behalf. If no role is specified, Systems Manager Automation uses the permissions of the user that starts this runbook.

  • ClusterARN

    Type: StringList

    Description: (Required) The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the Amazon ECS cluster your container instances is registered with.

Required IAM permissions

The AutomationAssumeRole parameter requires the following actions to use the runbook successfully.

  • ssm:StartAutomationExecution

  • ssm:GetAutomationExecution

  • ssm:GetCommandInvocation

  • ec2:DescribeImages

  • ec2:DescribeInstanceAttribute

  • ec2:DescribeImage

  • ec2:DescribeInstance

  • ec2:DescribeInstanceAttribute

  • ecs:DescribeContainerInstances

  • ecs:DescribeClusters

  • ecs:ListContainerInstances

  • ecs:UpdateContainerAgent

Document Steps

aws:executeScript - Updates the Amazon ECS agent on the Amazon ECS cluster you specify in the ClusterARN parameters.

Outputs

UpdateAmazonECSAgent.UpdatedContainers - The ID of the instance where the update of the Amazon ECS agent succeeded.

UpdateAmazonECSAgent.FailedContainers - The ID of the instance where the update of the Amazon ECS agent failed.

UpdateAmazonECSAgent.InProgressContainers - The ID of the instance where the update of the Amazon ECS agent is in progress.