ECS Task Definition HealthCheck Missing

• Query id: d24389b4-b209-4ff0-8345-dc7a4569dcdd
• Query name: ECS Task Definition HealthCheck Missing
• Platform: CloudFormation
• Severity: Low
• Category: Observability
• URL: Github

Description

Amazon ECS must have the HealthCheck property defined to give more control over monitoring the health of tasks
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Positive test num. 1 - yaml file

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: "2010-09-09"
Description: A sample template
Resources:
  MyEC2Instance:
    Type: "AWS::EC2::Instance"
    Properties:
      ImageId: "ami-0ff8a91507f77f867"
      InstanceType: t2.micro
      KeyName: testkey
      BlockDeviceMappings:
        - DeviceName: /dev/sdm
          Ebs:
            VolumeType: io1
            Iops: 200
            DeleteOnTermination: false
            VolumeSize: 20
  taskdefinition:
    Type: AWS::ECS::TaskDefinition
    Properties:
      ContainerDefinitions:
        - Name:
            Ref: "AppName1"
          MountPoints:
            - SourceVolume: "my-vol"
              ContainerPath: "/var/www/my-vol"
          Image: "amazon/amazon-ecs-sample"
          Cpu: 256
          PortMappings:
            - ContainerPort:
                Ref: "AppContainerPort"
              HostPort:
                Ref: "AppHostPort"
          EntryPoint:
            - "/usr/sbin/apache2"
            - "-D"
            - "FOREGROUND"
          HealthCheck:
            Command:
              - CMD-SHELL
              - curl -f http://localhost:8080/ || exit 1
            Interval: 30
            Retries: 3
            StartPeriod: 1
            Timeout: 5
          Memory: 512
          Essential: true
        - Name:
            Ref: "AppName"
          MountPoints:
            - SourceVolume: "my-vol"
              ContainerPath: "/var/www/my-vol"
          Image: "amazon/amazon-ecs-sample"
          Cpu: 256
          PortMappings:
            - ContainerPort:
                Ref: "AppContainerPort"
              HostPort:
                Ref: "AppHostPort"
          EntryPoint:
            - "/usr/sbin/apache2"
            - "-D"
            - "FOREGROUND"
          Memory: 512
          Essential: true
      Volumes:
        - Host:
            SourcePath: "/var/lib/docker/vfs/dir/"
          Name: "my-vol"

Positive test num. 2 - json file

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09",
  "Description": "A sample template",
  "Resources": {
    "MyEC2Instance": {
      "Type": "AWS::EC2::Instance",
      "Properties": {
        "BlockDeviceMappings": [
          {
            "DeviceName": "/dev/sdm",
            "Ebs": {
              "DeleteOnTermination": false,
              "VolumeSize": 20,
              "VolumeType": "io1",
              "Iops": 200
            }
          }
        ],
        "ImageId": "ami-0ff8a91507f77f867",
        "InstanceType": "t2.micro",
        "KeyName": "testkey"
      }
    },
    "taskdefinition": {
      "Type": "AWS::ECS::TaskDefinition",
      "Properties": {
        "ContainerDefinitions": [
          {
            "MountPoints": [
              {
                "SourceVolume": "my-vol",
                "ContainerPath": "/var/www/my-vol"
              }
            ],
            "Image": "amazon/amazon-ecs-sample",
            "Cpu": 256,
            "PortMappings": [
              {
                "HostPort": {
                  "Ref": "AppHostPort"
                },
                "ContainerPort": {
                  "Ref": "AppContainerPort"
                }
              }
            ],
            "EntryPoint": [
              "/usr/sbin/apache2",
              "-D",
              "FOREGROUND"
            ],
            "Memory": 512,
            "Essential": true,
            "Name": {
              "Ref": "AppName"
            }
          }
        ],
        "Volumes": [
          {
            "Host": {
              "SourcePath": "/var/lib/docker/vfs/dir/"
            },
            "Name": "my-vol"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - yaml file

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: "2010-09-09"
Description: A sample template
Resources:
  MyEC2Instance:
    Type: "AWS::EC2::Instance"
    Properties:
      ImageId: "ami-0ff8a91507f77f867"
      InstanceType: t2.micro
      KeyName: testkey
      BlockDeviceMappings:
        - DeviceName: /dev/sdm
          Ebs:
            VolumeType: io1
            Iops: 200
            DeleteOnTermination: false
            VolumeSize: 20
  taskdefinition:
    Type: AWS::ECS::TaskDefinition
    Properties:
      ContainerDefinitions:
        - Name:
            Ref: "AppName"
          MountPoints:
            - SourceVolume: "my-vol"
              ContainerPath: "/var/www/my-vol"
          Image: "amazon/amazon-ecs-sample"
          Cpu: 256
          PortMappings:
            - ContainerPort:
                Ref: "AppContainerPort"
              HostPort:
                Ref: "AppHostPort"
          EntryPoint:
            - "/usr/sbin/apache2"
            - "-D"
            - "FOREGROUND"
          HealthCheck:
            Command:
              - CMD-SHELL
              - curl -f http://localhost:8080/ || exit 1
            Interval: 30
            Retries: 3
            StartPeriod: 1
            Timeout: 5
          Memory: 512
          Essential: true
      Volumes:
        - Host:
            SourcePath: "/var/lib/docker/vfs/dir/"
          Name: "my-vol"

Negative test num. 2 - json file

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09",
  "Description": "A sample template",
  "Resources": {
    "MyEC2Instance": {
      "Type": "AWS::EC2::Instance",
      "Properties": {
        "ImageId": "ami-0ff8a91507f77f867",
        "InstanceType": "t2.micro",
        "KeyName": "testkey",
        "BlockDeviceMappings": [
          {
            "Ebs": {
              "VolumeType": "io1",
              "Iops": 200,
              "DeleteOnTermination": false,
              "VolumeSize": 20
            },
            "DeviceName": "/dev/sdm"
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "taskdefinition": {
      "Type": "AWS::ECS::TaskDefinition",
      "Properties": {
        "Volumes": [
          {
            "Host": {
              "SourcePath": "/var/lib/docker/vfs/dir/"
            },
            "Name": "my-vol"
          }
        ],
        "ContainerDefinitions": [
          {
            "EntryPoint": [
              "/usr/sbin/apache2",
              "-D",
              "FOREGROUND"
            ],
            "Memory": 512,
            "PortMappings": [
              {
                "ContainerPort": {
                  "Ref": "AppContainerPort"
                },
                "HostPort": {
                  "Ref": "AppHostPort"
                }
              }
            ],
            "MountPoints": [
              {
                "SourceVolume": "my-vol",
                "ContainerPath": "/var/www/my-vol"
              }
            ],
            "Image": "amazon/amazon-ecs-sample",
            "Cpu": 256,
            "HealthCheck": {
              "Command": [
                "CMD-SHELL",
                "curl -f http://localhost:8080/ || exit 1"
              ],
              "Interval": 30,
              "Retries": 3,
              "StartPeriod": 1,
              "Timeout": 5
            },
            "Essential": true,
            "Name": {
              "Ref": "AppName"
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}