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I'm configuring an ECS Task Definition to use AWS AppMesh for virtual networking. I'm using Envoy, which AWS recommends running as a sidecar; they have native support for it using the proxyConfiguration block in the ECS TaskDefinition configuration.

One of the properties available for configuration in the proxy is IgnoredUID. This purportedly allows the Envoy process to ignore its own traffic during proxy, without having to inspect it using the proxy. It's a performance enhancement. However, the docs don't describe how I might find my own version of that number. They just use the number "1337" and I haven't been able to figure out where that comes from.

The docs are here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/appmesh-getting-started.html (scroll down to "Update task definitions" and see JSON section).

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The UID that a docker process runs as can be fairly arbitrary. By default, all docker processes run with UID 0 (root). There are a few ways in which this changed:

  1. By baking a different default user into the image via the USER command in your Dockerfile
  2. Specifying a user in docker's cli using --user
  3. Setting user or uid in your ECS container definition for the sidecar:

For your case, I would assign any arbitrary UID for the container and set the same number for the IgnoredUID option.

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  • great answer, thank you, I've stuck with 1337. Jan 28, 2020 at 16:30

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