How do I build an awsx ecs fargatetaskdefinition with Pulumi?

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A Fargate task definition in Amazon ECS is a specification which defines the containers that will be deployed for a task. This definition provides configuration such as the Docker images to use, CPU and memory resources required, networking setup, and more.

In Pulumi, we use `awsx.ecs.FargateTaskDefinition` to create a Fargate task definition.

Here's a sample program which creates a Fargate task definition using Pulumi's awsx library:

```typescript
import * as awsx from "@pulumi/awsx";

// Create a Fargate task definition with an nginx container.
new awsx.ecs.FargateTaskDefinition("nginxTaskDef", {
    containers: {
        nginx: {
            image: "nginx",
            memory: 128,
            portMappings: [80],  // Expose port 80 of the nginx container.
        },
    },
});
```

In the above program, `new awsx.ecs.FargateTaskDefinition` is used to create the Fargate task definition. We specify `nginx` as the container with its configuration such as the Docker image to use, amount of memory, and port mappings.

This program sets up a task definition with a single container `nginx` that uses the "nginx" Docker image. The `memory` argument is used to define the amount of RAM this container uses and `portMappings` exposes port 80 of the nginx container.

For more information, see the [awsx.ecs.FargateTaskDefinition documentation](https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/awsx/api-docs/ecs/fargatetaskdefinition/).