Scanning Your Code for Vulnerabilities using ECR Container Scanning

Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: 1 minute and 49 seconds
Students: 24
Rating: 5/5

In this lesson, I’ll show you a feature that can assist in finding potential problems within your docker containers. 

 

Learning Objectives

By the end of this lesson you should have a good understanding of the following: 

  • The Scanning Feature in the Elastic Container Registry 

  • Enabling automatic scanning and evaluating the results of the scans 

  • Creating a docker container and pushing it to ECR

Intended Audience

  • If you are a DevOps Engineer, a SysAdmin or a software developer with a security-first approach, this lesson is for you 

Prerequisites

Some useful knowledge to have before starting includes: 

  • Building Docker containers 

  • ECS service in AWS 

  • Basic concepts of IT Security 

 

Covered Topics