AWS::NetworkFirewall::ContainerAssociation

NetworkFirewall ContainerAssociation

Resource type definition for AWS::NetworkFirewall::ContainerAssociation. A container association monitors container lifecycle events in your Amazon ECS or Amazon EKS clusters and resolves running container addresses for use in Network Firewall rules.

Properties

5 configurable properties. 3 required. Click a row to see details.

Filter:

Property	Type	Flags
`ContainerAssociationName`	`string`	RequiredCreate-only
`ContainerMonitoringConfigurations`	`Array<ContainerMonitoringConfiguration>`	Required
`Type`	`string`	RequiredCreate-only
`Description`	`string`
`Tags`	`Array<Tag>`

Return Values

Values returned after the resource is created. Access these with Fn::GetAtt.

Attribute	Type	Description
`ContainerAssociationArn`	`string`	The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the container association.
`ResolvedCidrCount`	`integer`	The number of CIDR blocks resolved from the monitored containers.
`Status`	`string`	The current status of the container association.

Sample CloudFormation Template

A minimal template with required properties and common optional ones.

template.yaml

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: "2010-09-09"
Description: Sample template for AWS::NetworkFirewall::ContainerAssociation

Resources:
  MyResource:
    Type: AWS::NetworkFirewall::ContainerAssociation
    Properties:
      ContainerAssociationName: "my-containerassociationname"
      Type: "ECS"
      ContainerMonitoringConfigurations: []
      Tags:
        - Key: Environment
          Value: Production
      Description: !Ref "AWS::StackName"

Required IAM Permissions

Permissions CloudFormation needs in your IAM role to manage this resource.

create

network-firewall:CreateContainerAssociationnetwork-firewall:TagResourcenetwork-firewall:DescribeContainerAssociationecs:DescribeClusterseks:DescribeClusterevents:PutRuleevents:PutTargetsiam:CreateServiceLinkedRole

read

network-firewall:DescribeContainerAssociation

update

network-firewall:UpdateContainerAssociationnetwork-firewall:DescribeContainerAssociationnetwork-firewall:TagResourcenetwork-firewall:UntagResourceecs:DescribeClusterseks:DescribeClusterevents:PutRuleevents:PutTargetsevents:DeleteRuleevents:RemoveTargets

delete

network-firewall:DeleteContainerAssociationnetwork-firewall:DescribeContainerAssociationevents:DeleteRuleevents:RemoveTargets

list

network-firewall:ListContainerAssociations

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Quick Facts

ServiceNetworkFirewall

Properties8

Required3

TaggingSupported

Primary IDContainerAssociationArn

Supported Operations

CreateReadUpdateDeleteList

Immutable After Creation

These properties cannot be changed after the resource is created. Updating them triggers a replacement.

ContainerAssociationNameType

Related Resources

External Links

AWS Documentation