Technical requirements
For the Scheduling an EC2 Windows-based task with Terraform section, you will need to have the following technologies installed:
- The AWS CLI
- The Terraform CLI
- An IAM user account with the following managed policies attached:
AmazonECS_FullAccess
,IAMFullAccess
, andAmazonEC2FullAccess
You will also need Terraform development expertise.
To get access to the source code used in this chapter, access the GitHub repository here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Running-Windows-Containers-on-AWS//tree/main/ecs-ec2-windows.
Important note
It is strongly recommended to use an AWS test account to perform the activities described in the book and never test the activities in a production environment.