Passing EC2 parameter store variables to an ECS task as environment variables

Question

Is there any to pass parameters from EC2 parameter store as environment variables to an ECS task?

AWS provides us with
1) A way to store parameters, both secret and less secret
2) A way to set environment variables inside ECS tasks
but no way to connect the to - or am I missing something?

Here a solution is described where you wrap the docker image in your own image only to be able to load parameters. If this is the recommended way then I will have to wrap all images from Docker Hub that I could otherwise use as stock images and do nothing beside configure them via environment variables.

I feel like this forces me to take on an unnecessary amount of responsibility for coding, maintaining, storing, etc. of docker images where I would otherwise only have to set environment variables.

Answer 1

This was recently posted by AWS on how to access Parameter store in an ECS task. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/managing-secrets-for-amazon-ecs-applications-using-parameter-store-and-iam-roles-for-tasks/