AWS Cloud Architecture•Part 3: Compute, Containers & Serverless (21 - 35)
Amazon ECR container security.
In Simple Words: Amazon Elastic Container Registry supports:
- Tag Immutability: Prevents existing image tags (like
latestorv1.0) from being overwritten. - Vulnerability Scanning: Automated scanning with AWS Inspector on push to find CVE vulnerabilities in container packages.
hcl
resource "aws_ecr_repository" "repo" {
name = "production-api"
image_tag_mutability = "IMMUTABLE" # Prevents tag overwriting!
image_scanning_configuration {
scan_on_push = true
}
}