How Do I Deploy AWS Elastic Beanstalk With Amazon Inspector Integration?

Introduction

In this guide, we will walk you through the process of deploying an AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment and integrating it with Amazon Inspector using Pulumi. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that simplifies the deployment and management of applications. Amazon Inspector is a security assessment service that helps identify potential security vulnerabilities in your AWS environment. By integrating these services, you can ensure that your applications are both efficiently managed and secure.

Key Points

• AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A service for deploying and scaling web applications.
• Amazon Inspector: A service for automated security assessment.
• Pulumi: An infrastructure as code tool to deploy and manage cloud resources.

Steps

1. Create an Elastic Beanstalk Application:

   • Define an application and environment using Pulumi.
   • This involves specifying the application name and environment configurations such as the solution stack and instance type.

2. Configure Amazon Inspector:

   • Set up an assessment target and template to scan the Elastic Beanstalk environment.
   • This includes creating a resource group and linking it to an assessment target, followed by defining an assessment template with the desired rules packages.

import * as pulumi from "@pulumi/pulumi";
import * as aws from "@pulumi/aws";

// Create an Elastic Beanstalk Application
const app = new aws.elasticbeanstalk.Application("my-app", {
    description: "My Elastic Beanstalk application",
});

// Create an Elastic Beanstalk Environment
const env = new aws.elasticbeanstalk.Environment("my-env", {
    application: app.name,
    solutionStackName: "64bit Amazon Linux 2 v3.3.6 running Node.js 14",
    settings: [
        {
            namespace: "aws:autoscaling:launchconfiguration",
            name: "InstanceType",
            value: "t2.micro",
        },
    ],
});

// Create an Amazon Inspector Assessment Target
const assessmentTarget = new aws.inspector.AssessmentTarget("my-assessment-target", {
    resourceGroupArn: new aws.inspector.ResourceGroup("my-resource-group", {
        tags: {
            Environment: env.name,
        },
    }).arn,
});

// Create an Amazon Inspector Assessment Template
const assessmentTemplate = new aws.inspector.AssessmentTemplate("my-assessment-template", {
    duration: 3600, // 1 hour
    rulesPackageArns: [
        "arn:aws:inspector:us-west-2:758058086616:rulespackage/0-Xf7zF9mZ",
        "arn:aws:inspector:us-west-2:758058086616:rulespackage/0-nHf7zF9mZ",
    ],
    targetArn: assessmentTarget.arn,
});

// Export the URL of the Elastic Beanstalk environment
export const environmentUrl = pulumi.interpolate`http://${env.endpointUrl}`;

Summary

In this guide, we successfully created an AWS Elastic Beanstalk application and environment using Pulumi. Additionally, we configured Amazon Inspector to perform automated security assessments on the Elastic Beanstalk environment. This integration ensures that your application is not only efficiently managed but also adheres to security best practices, providing peace of mind and compliance with industry standards.