Terraform-provider-aws: Support for ECS service registration w/ multiple target groups

[ryanschneider]

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Description

The AWS team has just announced support for ECS services which can register w/ multiple target groups is in developer preview:

https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap/tree/master/preview-programs/ecs-multipletg-service

As such, it'd be good to have support for this in Terraform. However, currently only a single load_balancer can be attached to an aws_ecs_service, see: https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/aws/r/ecs_service.html#load_balancer-1

I'm opening this issue now before digging into the code, but based on the discussions in #4089 this may _just work_ :tm: if the validation logic is based solely on AWS responses. I'll update this issue w/ additional comments after I've looked into the provider code (which I'm not terribly familiar with, so that may take some time).

At a minimum, once this feature leaves developer preview the aws_ecs_service documentation will need to be updated.

New or Affected Resource(s)

• aws_ecs_service

Potential Terraform Configuration

The easiest solution from a backwards-compat/developer experience perspective would be to support multiple load_balancer sections in the aws_ecs_service HCL. For example to expand on the example provided from the documentation:

resource "aws_ecs_service" "mongo" {
  name            = "mongodb"
  cluster         = "${aws_ecs_cluster.foo.id}"
  task_definition = "${aws_ecs_task_definition.mongo.arn}"
  desired_count   = 3
  iam_role        = "${aws_iam_role.foo.arn}"
  depends_on      = ["aws_iam_role_policy.foo"]

  ordered_placement_strategy {
    type  = "binpack"
    field = "cpu"
  }

  load_balancer {
    target_group_arn = "${aws_lb_target_group.foo.arn}"
    container_name   = "mongo"
    container_port   = 8080
  }

 # also attach to bar TG on port 8181
 load_balancer {
    target_group_arn = "${aws_lb_target_group.bar.arn}"
    container_name   = "mongo"
    container_port   = 8181
  }

  placement_constraints {
    type       = "memberOf"
    expression = "attribute:ecs.availability-zone in [us-west-2a, us-west-2b]"
  }
}

References

• https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap/tree/master/preview-programs/ecs-multipletg-service
• https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-aws/issues/4089

[ryanschneider]

Looks like the validation is currently done in the provider, so this line would need to be updated:

https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-aws/blob/ca1bfac87548248c8a4812b502fee739a96e608b/aws/resource_aws_ecs_service.go#L155

[sunilkumarmohanty]

Unfortunately, this cannot be released now as the feature is in developer preview.

[bflad]

Support for this has been tested and merged. It will release with version 2.22.0 of the Terraform AWS Provider, later this week. Thanks to @sunilkumarmohanty for the implementation. 👍

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