cosmic-sdk-swift VS checkov

Cosmic — Headless CMS and API toolkit. Free personal plans for developers.

Hi HN, today we are releasing Blocks (https://blocks.cosmicjs.com/), our new data infused components for building Cosmic (https://www.cosmicjs.com/) (W19) powered websites and apps. Cosmic is a headless content management system (CMS). We provide a dashboard to create content and API tools to deliver content to any website or app.

Blocks are pre-built website components that you can drop into your project. Choose from landing pages, blogs, image galleries, product pages, and more. With Blocks you can build these features with Cosmic faster than ever.

It's our goal to empower your team to create the best content powered websites and apps. Blocks can be considered the missing "head" to connect with the Cosmic headless CMS. It is our opinionated component frontend for building highly scalable and performant web applications built with tools we think offer a development experience and performance advantage (React Server Components, Next.js, and Tailwind CSS).

React Server Components (RSCs) have unlocked a new paradigm in building data-driven web applications. By safely encapsulating data-fetching inside components, we can use RSCs as building blocks to enable faster and more scalable application development. We are excited for the potential of RSCs and Blocks. This is just the beginning.

To get started, go to the Blocks website (https://blocks.cosmicjs.com/) and follow the steps for installation. View the Blocks demo (Agency Template) (https://cosmic-agency-template.vercel.app/) to see all of the Blocks in action.

Blocks are built to give developers a head start with features that are:

- Performance optimized

In this article, we’re going to cover best practices for using React Server Components along with a headless CMS. We’ll also cover when to use client-side components and how to best structure your websites and apps for efficient data fetching from a headless CMS, in our case Cosmic (learn more about Cosmic here). Alright, let’s get into it:

RESTful API: Cosmic provides a RESTful API allowing for easy integration with any web or mobile applications. The Cosmic SDK for Swift abstracts the REST API to manage the CRUD operations for our app, this is what we’ll be using for our app.

1. Checkov: https://github.com/bridgecrewio/checkov Checkov is a static code analysis tool that helps developers prevent cloud misconfigurations during the development phase by scanning Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, and more.

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)