Having the Amazon ECS Agent packaged up would improve container experience for users in AWS

[kbsingh]

https://github.com/aws/amazon-ecs-agent needs to be packaged up in a way that we can roll out an AWS ECS specific atomichost image; this would allow users on AWS ECS serivice to better normalise their CentOS Atomic Host experience with the in platform integrations provided in AWS.

[cgwalters]

IIRC they were also looking at (super-privileged) containerizing this. It's likely worth filing an issue upstream.

[jasonbrooks]

The readme at https://github.com/aws/amazon-ecs-agent references running this as a container on any image that includes docker. We could just drop in a systemd unit file via cloud-init, and that ought to work.

[jasonbrooks]

There's an RPM for this here: https://github.com/aws/amazon-ecs-init

[jasonbrooks]

I tried this out today, I used the "other linux" directions from https://github.com/aws/amazon-ecs-agent/blob/master/README.md, had to add --privileged and my --env=ECS_CLUSTER= to the run line, but then it worked fine.