AWS ECS Create Scheduled Tasks (cron) via Cloudformation

Question

We want to create ScheduledTasks in AWS ECS via CloudFormation. Is there a programmatic way to create via boto or cloudformation?

Answer 1

In order to define a scheduled ECS task in CloudFormation, you need to define a "AWS::Events::Rule" resource with an ECS task as a target.

"TaskSchedule": {
  "Type": "AWS::Events::Rule",
  "Properties": {
    "Description": "dump data every workday at 10",
    "Name": "dump-data",
    "ScheduleExpression": "cron(0 10 ? * MON-FRI *)",
    "State": "ENABLED",
    "Targets": [
      {
        "Id": "dump-data-ecs-task",
        "RoleArn": {
          "Fn::GetAtt": ["TaskSchedulerRole", "Arn"]
        },
        "EcsParameters": {
          "TaskDefinitionArn": {
            "Ref": "TaskDefinition"
          },
          "TaskCount": 1
        },
        "Arn": {
          "Fn::GetAtt": ["EcsCluster", "Arn"]
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}