# amazon-ecs-cli を Homebrew, MacPorts でインストール

amazon-ecs-cli のインストール経路、実行ファイル、メタデータ、AI エージェント向けセキュリティノートを確認します。

## インストール

```sh
sudo av install brew:amazon-ecs-cli
```

追加のインストールコマンド:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install amazon-ecs-cli
```

  証拠: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install ecs-cli
```

  証拠: MacPorts ports tree: devel/ecs-cli/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## パッケージ情報

- **パッケージキー:** brew:amazon-ecs-cli
- **パッケージマネージャ:** Homebrew
- **バージョン:** 1.21.0
- **ソース概要:** CLI for Amazon ECS to manage clusters and tasks for development
- **ホームページ:** <https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/>
- **リポジトリ:** <https://github.com/aws/amazon-ecs-cli>
- **生成日時:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## 実行可能ファイル

- ecs-cli (エイリアス)

## インストール挙動

- Bottle: 利用不可

## バージョンと鮮度

- ページ生成日: 2026-08-03
- マネージャ版: 1.21.0
## プロジェクトの歴史と使われ方

Amazon ECS CLI was AWS's higher-level command-line tool for Amazon Elastic Container Service workflows, especially local development patterns that used Docker Compose-style definitions to create, update, and inspect ECS clusters, services, and tasks.

### プロジェクトの歴史

The aws/amazon-ecs-cli repository was created in September 2015. Its README describes a CLI for Amazon ECS that provides high-level commands for creating, updating, and monitoring clusters and tasks from a local development environment, as an alternative to using the AWS Management Console or lower-level AWS CLI commands.

The project tracked major ECS platform features through its changelog: named profiles and Windows support in 1.0.0, Fargate support in 1.1.0, service discovery, private registry credentials, Docker Compose v3 support, local commands, FireLens, EFS, and AWS Graviton2 support by the final 1.21.0 release line.

### 採用の歴史

The ECS CLI fit a specific packaging niche: developers wanted a small binary that translated familiar Docker Compose workflows into ECS resources before broader opinionated deployment CLIs existed. Homebrew packaging made it especially convenient for macOS and Linux developers working against ECS and Fargate.

AWS later placed AWS Copilot at the top of the ECS CLI README, describing Copilot as a generally available CLI for building, releasing, and operating container apps on ECS and Fargate. The GitHub repository metadata now marks amazon-ecs-cli as archived, which makes it a historical package for older ECS workflows rather than the forward-looking AWS container CLI.

### 使われ方

Users configured AWS credentials, region, cluster name, ECS profiles, and cluster configurations, then used commands such as ecs-cli configure, ecs-cli up, ecs-cli compose service up, ecs-cli ps, and ecs-cli logs. The README documents configuration storage in ~/.ecs on macOS/Linux and C:\Users\<username>\AppData\local\ecs on Windows, with optional use of ~/.aws/credentials through --aws-profile or AWS_PROFILE.

The tool mattered most when a project already had docker-compose.yml and ecs-params.yml files and wanted an incremental path to ECS tasks and services. For new AWS workflows, the README's Copilot banner is the key adoption signal: AWS redirected the developer-experience story to Copilot while leaving ECS CLI for compatibility.

### パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

Amazon ECS CLI is a classic cloud CLI lifecycle package: very useful during a platform transition, then effectively superseded while still present in package indexes for users with old automation.

It is also a reminder that package-manager descriptions can outlive a tool's strategic status. The binary still documents install links and configuration behavior, but the upstream repository being archived changes how maintainers should frame it.

### タイムライン

- 2015-09-30: aws/amazon-ecs-cli repository is created.
- 2017: v1.0.0 adds named ECS profiles, cluster configurations, and Windows support.
- 2017: v1.1.0 adds AWS Fargate support.
- 2020-07-07: v1.20.0 adds EFS support in compose up workflows.
- 2020-12-21: v1.21.0 adds container dependencies and Graviton2 instance support.
- 2025: GitHub metadata shows the repository archived.

### Related projects

- AWS CLI provides the lower-level ECS API command surface.
- AWS Copilot CLI is the AWS-recommended successor-style developer CLI for container applications on ECS and Fargate.
- Docker Compose and ecs-params.yml are central adjacent formats for ECS CLI workflows.

### ソース

- <https://api.github.com/repos/aws/amazon-ecs-cli>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/aws/amazon-ecs-cli/releases?per_page=5>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aws/amazon-ecs-cli/master/CHANGELOG.md>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aws/amazon-ecs-cli/master/README.md>


## セキュリティノート

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- **Geiger リスク:** orange / 中
- infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: ~/.ecs
- Windows: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\local\ecs

## Credential files

- Unix: ~/.aws/credentials, ~/.ecs
- Windows: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\local\ecs
## 他のパッケージマネージャ記録

- MacPorts - ecs-cli: installed executable or alias match | MacPorts ports tree: devel/ecs-cli/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/amazon-ecs-cli.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/amazon-ecs-cli.yml)


## ソース

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph