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  Provides an ECS service.
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# aws\_ecs\_service

Provides an ECS service - effectively a task that is expected to run until an error occures or user terminates it (typically a webserver or a database). 

See [ECS Services section in AWS developer guide](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/ecs_services.html).

## Example Usage

```
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}"

  load_balancer {
    elb_name = "${aws_elb.foo.id}"
    container_name = "mongo"
    container_port = 8080
  }
}
```

## Argument Reference

The following arguments are supported:

* `name` - (Required) The name of the service (up to 255 letters, numbers, hyphens, and underscores)
* `task_definition` - (Required) The family and revision (`family:revision`) or full ARN of the task definition that you want to run in your service.
* `desired_count` - (Required) The number of instances of the task definition to place and keep running
* `cluster` - (Optional) ARN of an ECS cluster
* `iam_role` - (Optional) IAM role that allows your Amazon ECS container agent to make calls to your load balancer on your behalf. This parameter is only required if you are using a load balancer with your service.
* `load_balancer` - (Optional) A load balancer block. Load balancers documented below.

Load balancers support the following:

* `elb_name` - (Required) The name of the load balancer.
* `container_name` - (Required) The name of the container to associate with the load balancer (as it appears in a container definition).
* `container_port` - (Required) The port on the container to associate with the load balancer.


## Attributes Reference

The following attributes are exported:

* `id` - The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that identifies the service
* `name` - The name of the service
* `cluster` - The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of cluster which the service runs on
* `iam_role` - The ARN of IAM role used for ELB
* `desired_count` - The number of instances of the task definition