AWS ECS Task definition update

Question

I'm setting up new services in ECS and have updated my task definition many times. When I do so, I need to edit the correspondent service and update the version to the latest.

Is there a way to automatically update an AWS service with the latest version of its correspondent task definition when it's updated?

Answer 1

To force ECS service to re-evaluated the task definition and pull the new container image. use

aws ecs update-service --cluster cluster_name --service service_name --force-new-deployment