[ECS] [BUG]: Support for Docker version 25.0 with ECS-Agent

[awsjake]

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Tell us about your request
What do you want us to build?
ECS Agent support for Docker version 25.0 and higher

Which service(s) is this request for?
ECS

Tell us about the problem you're trying to solve. What are you trying to do, and why is it hard?
For instances that are not running the ECS Optimized AMI, where the Docker version and ECS agent version is preconfigured, launching new instances that pull the latest docker version will fail to run the ECS agent.

For instances that launch and install the latest version of Docker, downtime occurs, as no Container Instances will register with the ECS API until the version is downgraded.

Docker version 25.0 was released January 19, 2024

The new version prevents the pause container from running with the following error:
Failed to load pause container: container load: failed to load container image: /images/amazon-ecs-pause.tar : Error response from daemon: client version 1.21 is too old. Minimum supported API version is 1.24, please upgrade your client to a newer version" module=agent.go

Are you currently working around this issue?
Downgrade Docker to version 24.0.7

Additional context
Upgrading the ECS-Agent to the latest 1.80.0 does not have support for Docker 25.0

[sparrc]

Workaround for ECS Anywhere customers:

add flag --docker-install-source distro to the ecs-anywhere-install.sh script, as in:

sudo bash /tmp/ecs-anywhere-install.sh --region "us-west-2" --cluster "XXX" --activation-id "XXX" --activation-code "XXX" --docker-install-source distro

[awsjake]

ECS Agent version 1.81.0 fixes this issue and is released.

[awsjake]

ECS Agent version 1.81.0 fixes this issue and is released.