ECR Image Repositories Should Have A Lifecycle Policy Attached
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A Lifecycle policy should be defined for each Amazon ECR image repository in order to automatically remove untagged and old container images. A lifecycle policy is a set of one or more management rules, where each rule defines an action for Amazon ECR.Risk Level
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Operational Maturity, Cost, SecurityCompliance Standards
CBPTriage and Remediation
Remediation
Using Console
Using Console
Sure, here are the steps to remediate this misconfiguration in AWS:
- Open the AWS Management Console and navigate to the Elastic Container Registry (ECR) service.
- From the ECR dashboard, select the repository for which you want to set the lifecycle policy.
- In the repository details page, click on the “Lifecycle policies” tab.
- Click on the “Create lifecycle policy” button.
- In the “Create lifecycle policy” page, enter a name for the policy and choose the tag status for which you want to apply the policy.
- Under “Rules”, choose the actions you want to perform on images that match the tag status you selected in the previous step. For example, you can choose to expire images after a certain number of days or after a certain number of image versions.
- Click on the “Create” button to create the lifecycle policy.
- The lifecycle policy will now be applied to the selected repository and will automatically perform the actions you specified on images that meet the criteria you set.
Using CLI
Using CLI
To remediate the misconfiguration “ECR Image Repositories Should Have A Lifecycle Policy Attached” for AWS using AWS CLI, follow the below steps:Step 1: Open the AWS CLI on your local machine.Step 2: Run the below command to list all the ECR repositories in your AWS account.Step 3: Identify the repository for which you want to attach a lifecycle policy.Step 4: Create a JSON file with the following contents:In the above JSON file, you can modify the rule description and the count number as per your requirement.Step 5: Run the below command to attach the lifecycle policy to the repository.In the above command, replace In the above command, replace
<repository-name> with the name of the repository you want to attach the lifecycle policy to and <path-to-json-file> with the path to the JSON file you created in step 4.Step 6: Verify that the lifecycle policy is attached to the repository by running the below command.<repository-name> with the name of the repository you attached the lifecycle policy to.By following the above steps, you can remediate the misconfiguration “ECR Image Repositories Should Have A Lifecycle Policy Attached” for AWS using AWS CLI.Using Python
Using Python
To remediate the misconfiguration of ECR Image Repositories not having a Lifecycle Policy attached in AWS using Python, follow these steps:
- Import the necessary libraries. You will need boto3 library for AWS API calls.
- Connect to AWS using boto3 library. You will need to provide your AWS access key and secret access key along with the region name.
- Get a list of all the repositories in your AWS account.
- Loop through all the repositories and check if a Lifecycle Policy is attached. If not, attach a policy.
- The above code will attach a Lifecycle Policy to all the ECR Image Repositories in your AWS account that don’t have a policy attached. The policy will expire images older than 30 days.