How to secure Terraform code with Trivy

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  1. trivy

    Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more

    There are also pre-built packages available for various Linux distros, or grab the binary from GitHub releases: https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy/releases

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    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  3. aws-cloudformation-coverage-roadmap

    The AWS CloudFormation Public Coverage Roadmap

    At the time of writing Trivy supports scanning of various IaC configurations such as Terraform, CloudFormation and Azure Resource Manager. So even if your organisation uses different tools across teams, Trivy might just be the right tool. Trivy comes with built-in checks for various cloud platforms and in this blog post we will only use the built-in checks, but you can also define your own custom checks/policies.

  4. trivy-action

    Runs Trivy as GitHub action to scan your Docker container image for vulnerabilities

    When using Trivy in CI it’s wise to use a configuration file instead of the command line flags, this makes it easy to reproduce the scan using same configuration locally if you need to investigate some new findings. If you are using GitHub Actions, there’s an official Action that you can use to integrate Trivy into your CI pipeline, here’s a simple example which uses a configuration file:

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