ecsenv

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ECS Environment Generator

The ECS Environment Generator is a utility program that extracts environment variables and secrets from an AWS ECS task definition and generates a .env file.

Features

• Extract environment variables and secrets from ECS task definitions.
• Cache secrets to improve performance and reduce AWS Secret Manager API calls.
• Support for different cloud providers (currently AWS is supported).
• Verbose logging for debugging purposes.

Prerequisites

• Go (v1.16 or later)
• AWS credentials set up, either as environment variables (AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY) or via the AWS credentials file.

Usage

Build

To build the binary:

go build -o ecsenv

Run

To generate a .env file from an ECS task definition:

./ecsenv generate-env [taskDefinitionName] --region [region] --provider aws

To list all support cloud providers:

./ecsenv list-providers

Options

• -v, --verbose: Enable verbose output.
• -r, --region: Specify the AWS region. Defaults to us-west-2.
• -p, --provider: Specify the cloud provider. Defaults to aws.

Testing

To run the unit tests:

go test -v ./...

Contributing

Feel free to submit pull requests for new features or bug fixes. Please ensure that any changes include relevant unit tests.

License

MIT