Amazon Fargate · JSON Structure

Amazon Fargate Task Definition Structure

An Amazon ECS task definition

Type: object Properties: 11
ComputeContainersECSEKSMicroservicesServerless

TaskDefinition is a JSON Structure definition published by Amazon Fargate, describing 11 properties. It conforms to the https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/# meta-schema.

Properties

taskDefinitionArn family revision status requiresCompatibilities networkMode cpu memory executionRoleArn taskRoleArn containerDefinitions

Meta-schema: https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/#

JSON Structure

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{
  "$schema": "https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/#",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-fargate/refs/heads/main/json-structure/amazon-fargate-task-definition-structure.json",
  "description": "An Amazon ECS task definition",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "taskDefinitionArn": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Full ARN of the task definition",
      "example": "arn:aws:ecs:us-east-1:123456789012:task-definition/my-fargate-task:1"
    },
    "family": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Family of the task definition",
      "example": "my-fargate-task"
    },
    "revision": {
      "type": "int32",
      "description": "Revision number",
      "example": 1
    },
    "status": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Task definition status",
      "example": "ACTIVE",
      "enum": [
        "ACTIVE",
        "INACTIVE",
        "DELETE_IN_PROGRESS"
      ]
    },
    "requiresCompatibilities": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Launch types the task definition is compatible with",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "example": [
        "FARGATE"
      ]
    },
    "networkMode": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Docker networking mode",
      "example": "awsvpc",
      "enum": [
        "bridge",
        "host",
        "awsvpc",
        "none"
      ]
    },
    "cpu": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Number of cpu units",
      "example": "256"
    },
    "memory": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Amount of memory in MiB",
      "example": "512"
    },
    "executionRoleArn": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "ARN of task execution role",
      "example": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/ecsTaskExecutionRole"
    },
    "taskRoleArn": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "ARN of task IAM role",
      "example": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/ecsTaskRole"
    },
    "containerDefinitions": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Container definitions",
      "items": {
        "$ref": "#/components/schemas/ContainerDefinition"
      }
    }
  },
  "name": "TaskDefinition"
}