kapitan-reference
Reference structure for Kapitan - alpha version (by kapicorp)
checkov
Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew. (by bridgecrewio)
| kapitan-reference | checkov | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 62 | |
| 47 | 7,632 | |
| - | 1.6% | |
| 3.9 | 9.9 | |
| 6 months ago | 3 days ago | |
| Shell | Python | |
| - | Apache License 2.0 |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
kapitan-reference
Posts with mentions or reviews of kapitan-reference.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-19.
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Does anybody else find Helm charts pretty useless?
You can find some example in our repository
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GitOps opinion piece (it sucks at scale) and webinar announcement: GitOps from the trenches (community-debate on GitOps pros and cons)
If you are unfamiliar with Kapitan, you can check out our example repo here: https://github.com/kapicorp/kapitan-reference
checkov
Posts with mentions or reviews of checkov.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-05-27.
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Custom Security Checks for AWS Cloud Control Provider with Checkov
PR #6647
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DevOps in 2025: the future is automated, git-ified, and kinda scary but fun.
Checkov infrastructure-as-code misconfig detection
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Boas Práticas de Segurança e Qualidade no Terraform.
Link do repo
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Top Terraform/OpenTofu tools to Use in 2025
Link: https://github.com/bridgecrewio/checkov
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Terraform Cookbook: Development Environment Recipe
Checkov: static analysis for IaC
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Building Web Applications Using Amazon EKS : AWS Project
Prior to deploying kubernetes manifest files to EKS Cluster, supplementary steps need to be added to prevent security and misconfiguration issue by using both *Checkov *and Trivy . Also, we will use seperate ArgoCD account from admin user that we’ve used in the previous lab. This will follow ArgoCD RBAC rule to secure ArgoCD and EKS cluster ultimately.
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Automating Snowflake Resource Deployment using Terraform and GitHub Actions
The workflow also includes a step for infrastructure code scan to scan Terraform code. This uses Checkov action against infrastructure-as-code, open source packages, container images, and CI/CD configurations to identify misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and license compliance issues.
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Cloud Security and Resilience: DevSecOps Tools and Practices
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.
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A Deep Dive Into Terraform Static Code Analysis Tools: Features and Comparisons
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
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Top Terraform Tools to Know in 2024
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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kapitan-reference and checkov you can also consider the following projects:
jinsi - JSON/YAML homoiconic templating language
trivy - Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
devops-essentials - Learn DevOps | terraform | kubernetes | linux | nginx | monitoring | docker | docker-compose [Moved to: https://github.com/codeaprendiz/learn-devops]
kics - Find security vulnerabilities, compliance issues, and infrastructure misconfigurations early in the development cycle of your infrastructure-as-code with KICS by Checkmarx.
pyspark-k8s-boilerplate - Boilerplate for PySpark on Cloud Kubernetes
OPA (Open Policy Agent) - Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine.