Exposing the ability add ContainerDefinitions

[kepta]

I am requesting for a feature that allows adding one or more container definitions (guess that is also known as sidecar?) on top of the builtin watchbot container.

One of the use case in my mind is using AWS CloudWatch agent, which runs as a separate docker instance to handle cloudwatch logs via the Nodejs EMF SDK. Currently I have to do a messy code injection to achieve this functionality in Alerts, see code.

[rclark]

ecs-watchbot/lib/template.js

Lines 147 to 154 in c98f0c2

	const ref = {
	logGroup: cf.ref(prefixed('LogGroup')),
	topic: options.fifo ? undefined : cf.ref(prefixed('Topic')),
	queueUrl: cf.ref(prefixed('Queue')),
	queueArn: cf.getAtt(prefixed('Queue'), 'Arn'),
	queueName: cf.getAtt(prefixed('Queue'), 'QueueName'),
	notificationTopic: cf.ref(prefixed('NotificationTopic'))
	};

This set of template resources / values end up being returned in an object by the function call that generates the watchbot template.

Would adding a pointer here to the watchbot task definition meet your need? For example:

const params = { ... };
const template = watchbot.template(params);
const { taskDefinition } = template.ref;

taskDefinition.containerDefinitions.push({ ... });
...

[kepta]

Agh, I didnt know about this ref functionality, it seems neat!

Would adding a pointer here to the watchbot task definition meet your need? For example:

I think that should do it 👍