checkov VS pre-commit-terraform

Checkov Owner/Maintainer: Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks (acquired in 2021) Age: First released on GitHub on March 31st, 2021 License: Apache License 2.0

‍Checkov is another great tool that examines your Terraform files (.tf), parsing the configurations and evaluating them against a comprehensive set of predefined policies. It scans Terraform-managed infrastructure and detects misconfigurations that could lead to security issues or non-compliance with best practices and regulations.

Bridgecrew — Infrastructure as code (IaC) security powered by the open source tool - Checkov. The core Bridgecrew platform is free for up to 50 IaC resources.

Kustomize: It provides a solution to customize the Kubernetes resource base configuration and differential configuration without template and DSL. It does not solve the constraint problem itself, but needs to cooperate with a large number of additional tools to check constraints, such as Kube-linter, Checkov and kubescape.

Checkov is a versatile static code analysis tool designed for infrastructure as code (IaC) and software composition analysis (SCA). It supports a wide range of technologies, including Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Docker, and others, to detect security and compliance issues through graph-based scanning. Checkov also performs SCA scans, identifying vulnerabilities in open source packages and images by checking for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs). Additionally, it is integrated into Prisma Cloud Application Security, a platform that helps developers secure cloud resources and infrastructure-as-code files, enabling the identification, rectification, and prevention of misconfigurations throughout the development lifecycle.

For your Dockerfiles, you can also scan them. There are lots of tools that can check your Dockerfiles. They will validate if Dockerfile is compliant with Docker best practices such as not using root user, making sure a health check exists, and not exposing the SSH port. You can use Snyk and Checkov.

You could try https://www.checkov.io/

We use https://www.checkov.io/ for this, it's very simple to get started with and works really well as PR quality gate

Once there is a CI pipeline for delivering infra changes you can add static code analysis tools (checkov) and even start testing changes (terratest)

I just had a brief chat with one of the developers of Checkov and it sounds nice (and open source). I haven't had a chance to play with it, but if you want to it's at https://www.checkov.io/

Personally I use pre-commit with some of these hooks in addition to some default hooks. It's basically a localised CI pipeline, and also means every commit has passed checks so keeps your commit history neat. Way faster to develop infrastructure code and fix issues than having to keep pushing to the remote repo and waiting for an Action to run.

https://github.com/antonbabenko/pre-commit-terraform because Terraform/Terragrunt configs should be documented, tidy and valid all the time :)

Local testing with pre-commit-terraform. Formats code with terraform fmt Validates code with terraform validate Automatic README updates with terraform-docs. Static code analysis with TFLint, tfsec and checkov.

diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml index ca47c31..3e5cfef 100644 --- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml +++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml @@ -22,7 +22,10 @@ repos: rev: v2.7.1 hooks: - id: prettier - types_or: [yaml, markdown, json] + types_or: [yaml, markdown, json, html] + additional_dependencies: + - "[email protected]" + - "[email protected]" - repo: https://github.com/antonbabenko/pre-commit-terraform rev: v1.74.1 hooks:

pre-commit-terraform – Pre-commit git hooks for automation

Let me share a shameless plug (as an author of the pre-commit-terraform). I will show these hooks in action and answer questions during my live stream on Friday 29th of October - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziJK79tI6tY

We the following of this set of hooks for our Terraform modules:

Take a look on pre-commit scripts for terraform: https://github.com/antonbabenko/pre-commit-terraform. Of course, you can run it before git operations, for example: