Enable Envoy XRay tracing with Service Connect

Question

Is it possible to enable Envoy XRay tracing on ECS services integrated with Service Connect? 
I understand that with AppMesh, it's typically enabled via the `ENABLE_ENVOY_XRAY_TRACING` environment variable as part of the envoy container definition, but since the ecs-service-connect-agent container is attached under the hood I wasn't sure how to pass that variable on.

Jon_L · Accepted Answer

>https://github.com/aws/amazon-ecs-service-connect-agent#advanced-usage

Configuration of Environment variables such as `ENABLE_ENVOY_XRAY_TRACING` is not possible for `ecs-service-connect-agent container` when using `ECS Service Connect`, they are only configurable in `AppMesh`. This use case doesn't seem to be supported yet in ECS Service Connect.

You could open an issue in the GitHub repo to request configuration support of these Environment variables.

Enable Envoy XRay tracing with Service Connect

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