How to easily access docker container when using AWS ECS?

Question

I'm testing a solution of hosting an Ruby on Rails application in Elastic Container Service(ECS). I made the setup without Fargate and have my application running.

The thing is, whenever I have to enter the rails console, it is necessary to ssh one of the cluster instances, run a docker ps to list the containers, copy the container ID and use it in the docker exec -it <container_id> rails c

Do anyone know of a way to make it easier? Something like accessing the container without the need to query the container id or any other shortcut? Would Fargate help in this issue?

Answer 1

You can name your container in task definition and use that name to 'exec'. You wont need container-id in this case. Assuming you have only one container running ie no scaling.