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Enable container's health checks

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) health checks give you more control over monitoring the health of your tasks and improve the ability of the ECS service scheduler to ensure your services are healthy. If health checks are not configured for this container in its task definition, then it reports the health status as UNKNOWN.

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Risk Level: Low
Cloud Entity: Amazon ECS Task Definitions
CloudGuard Rule ID: D9.AWS.OPE.03
Covered by Spectral: Yes
Category: Compute

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EcsTask should not have healthStatus = 'UNKNOWN'

REMEDIATION

From Portal
Use following steps to verify current status of task definition.

  1. Login to the AWS Management Console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/vpc/home
  2. Navigate to ECS.
  3. Select the Region that contains your task definition.
  4. In the left pane, select Task Definitions.
  5. Verify the Status of last revision. it should be ACTIVE not UNKNOWN.

Create a new task definition revision to enable container's health check.

  1. Navigate to ECS.
  2. Select the Region that contains your task definition.
  3. In the left pane, select Task Definitions.
  4. Check the task definition and click Create new revision.
  5. On the Create new revision of task definition page, make changes. For example, to change the existing container definitions (such as the container image, memory limits, or port mappings), select the container, make the changes, and then choose Update.
  6. Select Create.
  7. If your task definition is used in a service, update your service with the updated task definition and deactivate the previous task definition.

Note: Follow reference section for more details on updating a service.

From Command Line
Use following command to create new task definition revision with a JSON string parameter.

Note: Container definitions is provided as a JSON string parameter with escaped double quotes.

aws ecs register-task-definition --family task_definition_family --container-definitions "[{"name":"sleep","image":"busybox","cpu":10,"command":["sleep","360"],"memory":10,"essential":true}]"

Use following command to change the task definition used in a service.

aws ecs update-service --service service_name --task-definition task_definition_ARN

References

  1. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/update-task-definition.html
  2. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/task_definition_parameters.html#container_definition_healthcheck
  3. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/create-task-definition-classic.html
  4. https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/ecs-task-container-health-check-failures/
  5. https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/latest/reference/ecs/register-task-definition.html
  6. https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/latest/reference/ecs/update-service.html

Amazon ECS Task Definitions

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a highly scalable, high-performance container orchestration service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run and scale containerized applications on AWS. Amazon ECS eliminates the need for you to install and operate your own container orchestration software, manage and scale a cluster of virtual machines, or schedule containers on those virtual machines.

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  • AWS CloudGuard Well Architected Framework
  • AWS HITRUST
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  • AWS ISO27001:2022
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