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feat: Add support for task and execution role ARNs in action.yml and …
DMEvanCT Apr 24, 2024
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Fix missing semicolon in index.js
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Fix task and execution role ARN assignment in index.js
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions action.yml
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Expand Up @@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ inputs:
command:
description: 'The command used by ECS to start the container image'
required: false
task-role-arn:
description: 'The ARN of the IAM role that the ECS container will assume'
required: false
execution-role-arn:
description: 'The ARN of the IAM role that the ECS task execution role will assume'
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This description can be made more explicit, as it could confuse some users since it's self-referencing.
Suggested reword: 'The ARN of the IAM role that the task definition will assume to run the task'

env-files:
description: 'S3 object arns to set env variables onto the container. You can specify multiple files with multi-line YAML strings.'
required: false
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Expand Up @@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ async function run() {
const logConfigurationOptions = core.getInput("log-configuration-options", { required: false });
const dockerLabels = core.getInput('docker-labels', { required: false });
const command = core.getInput('command', { required: false });
const taskRoleArn = core.getInput('task-role-arn', { required: false });
const executionRoleArn = core.getInput('execution-role-arn', { required: false });

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nit: could you remove unnecessary whitespace?


//New inputs to fetch task definition
const taskDefinitionArn = core.getInput('task-definition-arn', { required: false }) || undefined;
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containerDef.image = imageURI;


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nit: could you remove unnecessary whitespace?

if (command) {
containerDef.command = command.split(' ')
}
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})
}

if (taskRoleArn) {
taskDefContents.taskRoleArn = taskRoleArn;
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Can we add a regex validation for the arn? Need appropriate unit tests as well for these changes.

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ECS actually allows name-only format (if the role is in the same account as the task definition), and we rely on that to deploy the same task definition across multiple accounts.

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if (executionRoleArn) {
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Can we add a regex validation for the arn? Need appropriate unit tests as well for these changes.

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ECS actually allows name-only format (if the role is in the same account as the task definition), and we rely on that to deploy the same task definition across multiple accounts.

taskDefContents.executionRoleArn = executionRoleArn;
}

// Write out a new task definition file
var updatedTaskDefFile = tmp.fileSync({
tmpdir: process.env.RUNNER_TEMP,
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