AWS ECS Cluster can't be created using a custom AMI?

Question

I am trying to autoscale my jenkins nodes and I want my jenkins nodes to be in ECS cluster as EC2 ubuntu 20.04 machines. I created an custom ubuntu 20.04 AMI with docker, ecs-agent and other software I require and when I was in create cluster wizard there I can only see Amazon Linux AMI, I can't see my custom AMI to spin up the AWS ECS EC2 cluster. What I am I missing here?

Answer 1

Did you try creating an EC2 instance using your AMI and importing it to your cluster as an External Instance? Hope this will help troubleshoot your issue.

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