renovate VS snyk

Navigate to the Mend Renovate App on the GitHub Marketplace: https://github.com/apps/renovate.

You commit your docker-compose.yml file(s) to a GitHub repo (don't commit secrets!!), then add the Renovate App to your repo, merge the onboarding PR, then you'll get PRs when an image is updated.

I can't figure out and my google-fu is failing but what is the difference between using the Renovate App [https://github.com/apps/renovate] and using the Action [https://github.com/renovatebot/github-action]

renovate[bot] posted on May 05, 2023

I want to gather some statistics to see for example how many repositories have installed Renovate: https://github.com/apps/renovate

Use a dependency updater like dependabot or https://github.com/apps/renovate.

On the GitHub Marketplace, search for the Renovate app and click install. Select the organization or account where you wish to install Renovate. Next, choose whether to install Renovate across all of your repositories or just one particular one. We will only select one repository in this article.

It's a breeze to set up Renovate on your repositories. Just browse the GitHub Renovate app and click on the big gree Install button in the top right corner. Choose which organization and which repositories you'll install Renovate in.

Firstly, you'd want to integrate Renovate with your GitHub account from here. Then click install, and follow the steps as instructed. While configuring, Renovate lets you decide, if it should run on all the repositories by default or to run on only on specified repositories, select the option as you wish (Note: If you'd want, Renovate to run on forked repositories, Selecting All repositories would skip forked repos by default, in such cases, you'd want to manually add the forked repo(s)). Soon after setting up Renovate with the required repositories, an onboarding PR is submitted by the Renovate bot which contains information like configuration summary and what packages/dependencies are supposed to be upgraded. For demonstration purposes, I've forked a repo from my GitHub account that is supposedly a mobile application built on React Native, which is no longer maintained, so it'd serve as a good example to test on. If you follow the above steps correctly, you should see an onboarding PR similar to this:

Setting up Renovate is a matter of installing the hosted app, and configuring it by adding a renovate.json in the root of the repository. You can also install and run the Renovate CLI tool to get feedback on all your commits.

Snyk CLI was introduced to the World Wide Web and security enthusiasts on October 2, 2015, as v0.0.0-pre-alpha release. In the past eight years, we released Snyk CLI nearly two thousand times — and more than eleven hundred of those releases happened in the last three years. That’s one release every thirty-two hours, signifying our customers’ growing needs as well as the pace at which we operate to meet those needs at an enterprise scale. With increasing demand, the complexity, reach, and impact of our fast-paced code changes increased, too.

There are a number of ways that you can install the Snyk CLI on your machine, ranging from using the available stand-alone executables to using package managers such as Homebrew for macOS and Scoop for Windows.

There's tons of tools to solve each of these problems Snyk for vulnerability scanning, tons of license checker plugins (like we use license-webpack-plugin which generates the license text for everything we distribute and fails a build if a license doesn't have one of our allowlisted licenses.

oh, such companies already exist: For example Snyk

Snyk provides security score and vulnerability count badges, which you can link to the relevant pages, as in these examples:

If you app is dockerized I would recommend adding something like Snyk to make sure your image is safe.

Note: I remind you that we support multiple strategy for vulnerabilities like Sonatype or Snyk.

My name is Adam, and I am a software engineer working at Snyk for the past 2.5 years. Over the past year, I have been leading a few projects that spanned multiple teams. My colleague is a tech lead at Snyk, and he’s been coaching people on how to lead projects effectively for a few years now.

So I'm curious, how are businesses building iOS apps securely? Could a tool like Snyk replace a manual audit, or is it a good idea to have an initial manual audit of our desired environment?

Ideally, software can quickly go from development to production. Continuous deployment and delivery are some processes that make this possible. Continuous deployment means establishing an automated pipeline from development to production while continuous delivery means maintaining the main branch in a deployable state so that a deployment can be requested at any time. Predecos uses these tools. When a commit goes into master, the code is pushed directly to the public environment. Deployment also occurs when a push is made to a development branch enabling local/e2e testing before push to master. In this manner the master branch can be kept clean and ready for deployment most of the time. Problems that surface resulting from changes are visible before reaching master. Additional automated tools are used. Docker images are built for each microservice on commit to a development or master branch, a static code analysis is performed by SonarCloud revealing quality and security problems, Snyk provides vulnerability analysis and CodeClimate provides feedback on code quality while Coveralls provides test coverage. Finally, a CircleCI build is done. Each of these components use badges which give a heads-up display of the health of the system being developed. Incorporating each of these tools into the development process will keep the code on a trajectory of stability. For example, eliminating code smells, security vulnerabilities, and broken tests before merging a pull-request (PR) into master. Using Husky on development machines to ensure that code is well linted and locally tested before it is allowed to be pushed to source-control management (SCM). Applying additional processes such as writing tests around bugs meaning reintroduction of a given bug would cause a test to fail. The automated tools would then require that test to be fixed before push to SCM meaning fewer bugs will be reintroduced. Proper development processes and automation have a strong synergy.