Mercek: A desktop IDE for managing and debugging Amazon ECS containers
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Summary
Mercek is a desktop IDE for Amazon ECS that provides developers with a graphical interface to inspect logs, run interactive shell sessions on containers, and view task details like environment variables and network configuration. It uses existing AWS credentials, works across accounts and regions, and keeps all data local without sending anything to external servers.
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Drop into an interactive shell on a running container when you need one.
You can also read a task's full environment, with secrets shown as ARNs instead of values, and its network details: the ENI, IP addresses, security groups, subnet, and VPC.
It uses your existing AWS credentials, works across all your accounts and regions, and never sends anything to a server.
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