aws ecs-cli extra-user-data: flag provided but not defined

Question

I'm facing a strange problem trying to configure a AWS ECS cluster through ecs-cli. To be specific, if I use the flag --extra-user-data it says: flag provided but not defined.

here's my command syntax:

ecs-cli up --capability-iam --keypair test --size 1 --instance-type t2.small --extra-user-data file://init-ec2 --launch-type EC2 --force --cluster test --region eu-west-1

Here's the exception:

ERRO[0000] flag provided but not defined: -extra-user-data

Any help is appreciated...

Answer 1

--extra-user-data was released in version 1.9.0 of ecs-cli. The error message you've provided appears to indicate that you're running a previous version. Update to the latest version of ecs-cli and try again.