diff --git a/action.yml b/action.yml
index a18b581ad..e56764836 100644
--- a/action.yml
+++ b/action.yml
@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ inputs:
   run-task-started-by:
     description: "A name to use for the startedBy tag when running a task outside of a service. Will default to 'GitHub-Actions'."
     required: false
+  run-task-assign-public-ip:
+    description: "A boolean indicating whether to assign a public IP to the task."
+    required: false
   wait-for-task-stopped:
     description: 'Whether to wait for the task to stop when running it outside of a service. Will default to not wait.'
     required: false
diff --git a/dist/index.js b/dist/index.js
index 67713e72f..3e0007fb3 100644
--- a/dist/index.js
+++ b/dist/index.js
@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ async function runTask(ecs, clusterName, taskDefArn, waitForMinutes) {
   const launchType = core.getInput('run-task-launch-type', { required: false }) || 'FARGATE';
   const subnetIds = core.getInput('run-task-subnets', { required: false }) || '';
   const securityGroupIds = core.getInput('run-task-security-groups', { required: false }) || '';
+  const assignPublicIp = core.getInput('run-task-assign-public-ip', { required: false }) || '';
   const containerOverrides = JSON.parse(core.getInput('run-task-container-overrides', { required: false }) || '[]');
   let awsvpcConfiguration = {}
 
@@ -212,6 +213,10 @@ async function runTask(ecs, clusterName, taskDefArn, waitForMinutes) {
     awsvpcConfiguration["securityGroups"] = securityGroupIds.split(',')
   }
 
+  if (assignPublicIp != "") {
+    awsvpcConfiguration["assignPublicIp"] = assignPublicIp ? "ENABLED" : "DISABLED"
+  }
+
   const runTaskResponse = await ecs.runTask({
     startedBy: startedBy,
     cluster: clusterName,
@@ -227,11 +232,7 @@ async function runTask(ecs, clusterName, taskDefArn, waitForMinutes) {
 
   const taskArns = runTaskResponse.tasks.map(task => task.taskArn);
   core.setOutput('run-task-arn', taskArns);
-
-  taskArns.map(taskArn => {
-    let taskId = taskArn.split('/').pop();
-    core.info(`Task running: https://console.aws.amazon.com/ecs/home?region=${aws.config.region}#/clusters/${clusterName}/tasks`)
-  });
+  core.info(`Task running: https://console.aws.amazon.com/ecs/home?region=${aws.config.region}#/clusters/${clusterName}/tasks`);
 
   if (runTaskResponse.failures && runTaskResponse.failures.length > 0) {
     const failure = runTaskResponse.failures[0];
@@ -485,9 +486,11 @@ async function createCodeDeployDeployment(codedeploy, clusterName, service, task
       }
     }
   };
+
   // If it hasn't been set then we don't even want to pass it to the api call to maintain previous behaviour.
   if (codeDeployDescription) {
-    deploymentParams.description = codeDeployDescription
+    // CodeDeploy Deployment Descriptions have a max length of 512 characters, so truncate if necessary
+    deploymentParams.description = (codeDeployDescription.length <= 512) ? codeDeployDescription : `${codeDeployDescription.substring(0,511)}…`;
   }
   const createDeployResponse = await codedeploy.createDeployment(deploymentParams).promise();
   core.setOutput('codedeploy-deployment-id', createDeployResponse.deploymentId);
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index b3dee9f4a..3aac12b2c 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ async function runTask(ecs, clusterName, taskDefArn, waitForMinutes) {
   const launchType = core.getInput('run-task-launch-type', { required: false }) || 'FARGATE';
   const subnetIds = core.getInput('run-task-subnets', { required: false }) || '';
   const securityGroupIds = core.getInput('run-task-security-groups', { required: false }) || '';
+  const assignPublicIp = core.getInput('run-task-assign-public-ip', { required: false }) || '';
   const containerOverrides = JSON.parse(core.getInput('run-task-container-overrides', { required: false }) || '[]');
   let awsvpcConfiguration = {}
 
@@ -40,6 +41,10 @@ async function runTask(ecs, clusterName, taskDefArn, waitForMinutes) {
     awsvpcConfiguration["securityGroups"] = securityGroupIds.split(',')
   }
 
+  if (assignPublicIp != "") {
+    awsvpcConfiguration["assignPublicIp"] = assignPublicIp ? "ENABLED" : "DISABLED"
+  }
+
   const runTaskResponse = await ecs.runTask({
     startedBy: startedBy,
     cluster: clusterName,