Container Registry Management with ECR and Security Policies
Overview
In this workshop, you will implement a comprehensive container registry management system using Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR). The content focuses on designing a secure, efficient, and professional container management workflow, fully integrated with:
- Security policies (IAM)
- Vulnerability scanning (Amazon Inspector)
- Granular access control
- Lifecycle automation and CI/CD deployment
- Monitoring and alerting (CloudWatch & SNS)
- Compliance validation and cost optimization
You will learn to design the system following a DevSecOps approach, where container images are scanned before deployment, access is tightly controlled, and old resources are automatically cleaned up to reduce cost.
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
- Apply security policies using IAM, demonstrating how ECR interacts with services like CodeBuild, ECS, and Lambda
- Integrate Amazon Inspector to automatically scan container images for vulnerabilities upon image push
- Implement granular access controls, ensuring users and services only have the permissions they need
- Configure ECR lifecycle policies to automatically clean up unused or untagged images and optimize storage cost
- Design an automated CI/CD pipeline that triggers security scans when new images are pushed
- Set up monitoring and alerts to notify you of potential security threats or suspicious activities
- Build a production-ready DevSecOps pipeline for managing containers securely and efficiently on AWS
Workshop Content
- Introduction
- Prerequisites
- IAM Configuration
- CI/CD with GitHub Actions
- ECR Security & Lifecycle Management
- Monitoring & Alerts
- Clean-up Resources
Let’s begin building a secure, optimized, and automated container registry on AWS!