aws / aws/containers-roadmap

feature request: add host-local environment file to task container

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Description

### Summary

We have a desire to add host specific configuration to task containers, ideally via environment variables

### Description

We see that ecs task definitions support environment files, but currently only of type s3

Ideally a simple ecs agent config option to append an entry to all task containers environment files

### Expected Behavior

### Observed Behavior

### Environment Details

ECS anywhere

### Supporting Log Snippets

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Research direction

Start by reviewing ECS task-definition environment file support and the ECS Anywhere agent configuration described in the issue. Define how a host-local environment file would be appended to every task container and verify that the behavior is documented and consistently applied across ECS Anywhere task launches.

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Assessment

Tech stack
aws
Domain
cloud
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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