ECS agent not available on Amazon ECS optimised AMI

Question

AMI ID: amzn2-ami-ecs-hvm-2.0.20200115-x86_64-ebs (ami-03f05a4c7314d92be)  
Symptom: from console, see attached file. When click on 'update agent' button, it came back with 'There is no update available for your container agent.'  
  
SSH onto the EC2 Instance

```
$ sudo yum update -y ecs-init
Loaded plugins: priorities, update-motd, upgrade-helper
amzn2-core                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | 2.4 kB  00:00:00     
No packages marked for update
[ec2-user@ip-10-215-20-34 ~]$ service docker restart && sudo start ecs
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl restart docker.service
Failed to restart docker.service: The name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 was not provided by any .service files
See system logs and 'systemctl status docker.service' for details.
[ec2-user@ip-10-215-20-34 ~]$ which ecs-init
/usr/bin/which: no ecs-init in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/ec2-user/.local/bin:/home/ec2-user/bin)
[ec2-user@ip-10-215-20-34 ~]$ sudo docker -v
Docker version 18.09.9-ce, build 039a7df
```

So ecs-init is missing from this AMI  
Ref: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/agent-update-ecs-ami.html  
Ref: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/ecs-agent-install.htmlw  
  
Edited by: Nemoisme on Feb 12, 2020 5:15 AM  
Edit for clarity and add references

Answer

AMI ID: amzn2-ami-ecs-hvm-2.0.20200115-x86_64-ebs (ami-03f05a4c7314d92be)  
1.  
I add this role 'AmazonEC2ContainerServiceforEC2Role' to the ECS Task Executioner (Cloud Formation ECS service stack). Delete and rerun create-stack

```
  TaskExecutionRole:
    Type: AWS::IAM::Role
    Properties:
      Path: /
      AssumeRolePolicyDocument:
        Version: 2012-10-17
        Statement:
          - Action: sts:AssumeRole
            Effect: Allow
            Principal:
              Service: ecs-tasks.amazonaws.com
      ManagedPolicyArns:
        - arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonECSTaskExecutionRolePolicy
        - arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AmazonEC2ContainerServiceforEC2Role
```

(ssh onto the instance, then)  
2 install ecs and starts it  
$ sudo  amazon-linux-extras install -y ecs  
$ sudo yum update -y ecs-init  
Loaded plugins: priorities, update-motd, upgrade-helper  
No packages marked for update  
Note:  
The way in https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/ecs-agent-install.html to start ecs doesn't work for me.

```
$ service docker restart && sudo start ecs
sudo: start: command not found
```

3 Test launching tasks  
From AWS ECS Console, I then manually launched new task like the one created & stopped by CF stack.    
  
4. The tasks stopped again.   
`Task failed to start`  
Nginx, webapp tasks does have any Cloud Watch Log. But mysql task does ping down to some settings problem, so I fixed it there.

ECS agent not available on Amazon ECS optimised AMI

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