This pattern builds an EC2 Image Builder pipeline that produces a hardened Amazon Linux 2 base container image. Terraform is used as an infrastructure as code (IaC) tool to configure and provision the infrastructure that is used to create hardened container images. The recipe helps you deploy a Docker-based Amazon Linux 2 container image that has been hardened according to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 STIG Version 3 Release 7 ‒ Medium. (See STIG-Build-Linux-Medium version 2022.2.1 in the Linux STIG components section of the EC2 Image Builder documentation.) This is referred to as a golden container image.
