A test project for setting up an ECS cluster with EC2 launch type via CloudFormation template; launching services within the cluster.
Clone the repository to your local directory and launch shell script from command line.
chmod u+x ./Launch.sh
Launch.sh --stackname=MyTestStack --accesskey=AKI00000000000000000 --secretaccesskey=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 --region=us-west-2 --containername=nginx --containerurl=nginx
The script was tested on Ubuntu 16.04; this assumes you have a valid set of credentials for accessing Amazon Web Services.