Learn how you can leverage the use of Snyk inside your Docker engine installation
Security is the most relevant topic in modern architecture. It needs to be handled from all different perspectives. Having a single team auditing the platforms and the developments that we built is not enough.
The introduction of DevSecOps as the new normal, including the security teams and policies being part of the development process to avoid security becoming a blocker of innovation and make sure that the artifacts we deploy are secured, have made this clear.
Docker image scanning is one of the most important topics we can cover regarding the container images to know that all the internal components that are part of the image are safe from vulnerabilities. We usually rely on some systems to do so.
I wrote an article regarding the usage of one of the most relevant options (Harbor) from the open source world to do this job.
And this is also being done by different Docker repositories from cloud providers like Amazon ECR as of this year. But why do we need to wait until we push the images to an external Docker registry? Why can’t we do it in our local environment?
Now we can. Version 2.5.0.1 of the Docker engine also includes the Snyk components needed to inspect the Docker images directly from the command line:
Scanning Your Local Images
So, let’s start. Let’s open a new terminal and type the following command:
docker scan <image-name>
As soon as we type this, the command will tell us that this scanning process will use Snyk to do that and we need to authorize access to those services to do the scanning process.
After that, we get a list of all the vulnerabilities detected, as you can see in the picture below:
For each of the vulnerabilities, you can see the following data:
We get the library with the vulnerability, the severity level, and a short description of it. If you need more details, you can also check the provided URL that is linked to a description page for that vulnerability:
Finally, it also provides the sources introducing this library in your image so this can be solved quickly.
It provides a high-level view of the whole image too, as you can see here:
So, now you don’t have any excuse to not have all your images safe and secure before pushing to your local repository. Let’s do it!
