Create a ScanTemplate with Supply Chain Security Tools - Scan

This topic tells you how to create a ScanTemplate with Supply Chain Security Tools (SCST) - Scan.

Note

This topic assumes that you use SCST - Scan 1.0 because, although it is deprecated, it is still the default option in Supply Chain with Testing in this version of Tanzu Application Platform. For more information, see Add testing and scanning to your application.

VMware recommends using SCST - Scan 2.0 instead because SCST - Scan 1.0 will be removed from future versions of Tanzu Application Platform. For more information, see SCST - Scan versions.

Overview

The ScanTemplate custom resource (CR) defines how the scan Pod fulfills the task of vulnerability scanning. There are default ScanTemplates, provided as standard, that use the Tanzu Application Platform default scanner Anchore Grype. One or more initContainers run to complete the scan and must save results to a shared volume.

After the initContainers finishes, a single container on the scan Pod called summary combines the result of the initContainers so that the Scan CR status is updated.

A customized ScanTemplate is created by editing or replacing initContainer definitions and reusing the summary container from the grype package. A container can read the out.yaml from an earlier step to locate relevant inputs.

Output model

Each initContainer can create a subdirectory in /workspace to use as a scratch space. Before terminating, the container must create an out.yaml file in the subdirectory containing the relevant subset of fields from the output model:

fetch:
  git:
    url:
    revision:
    path:
  blob:
    url:
    revision:
    path:
  image:
    url:
    revision:
    path:
sbom:
    packageCount:
    reports: []
scan:
  cveCount:
    critical:
    high:
    medium:
    low:
    unknown:
  scanner:
    name:
    vendor:
    version:
    db:
      version:
  reports: []
eval:
  violations: []
store:
  locations: []

The scan portion of the earlier output is required and, if missing, the scan controller fails to properly update the final status of the Scan CR. Other portions of the output, including those of store and policy evaluation, are optional and can be omitted if not applicable in a custom supply-chain setup.

ScanTemplate structure

This is an example ScanTemplate structure:

apiVersion: scanning.apps.tanzu.vmware.com/v1beta1
kind: ScanTemplate
spec:
    template: # a core/v1 PodSpec
      # Here are list volumes mounted for writing to or
      # reading from during different stages of the scan
      volumes:
        # required the results of different scan stages
        # should be saved in files digestible by the scan
        # controller in this volume
        - name: workspace
        emptyDir: { }
      # different steps required for a scanning can be staged
      # in sequential stages through initContainers.
      initContainers:
      # Summary container will take results of initContainers
      # and will let Controller to update Scan CR status.
      containers:
        - name: summary

Note

You cannot name a container sleep because there is already a container named sleep that comes from the scan-link controller.

Sample Outputs

This is an example for a typical Git clone (source scan fetch stage) that is saved in /workspace/git-clone/out.yaml:

fetch:
  git:
    url: github.com/my/repo
    revision: aee9f8
    path: /workspace/git-clone/cloned-repository

This is an example of a typical scan stage, which is saved in /workspace/grype-scan/out.yaml:

scan:
  cveCount:
    critical: 0
    high: 1
    medium: 3
    low: 25
    unknown: 0
  scanner:
    name: grype
    vendor: Anchore
    version: 0.33.0
    db:
      version: 2022-04-13
  reports:
  - /workspace/grype-scan/repo.cyclonedx.xml
  - /workspace/grype-scan/app.cyclonedx.xml
  - /workspace/grype-scan/base.cyclonedx.xml

This is an example of a typical evaluation stage, which is saved in /workspace/policy-eval/out.yaml:

eval:
  violations:
    - banned package log4j
    - critical CVE 2022-01-01-3333
    - number of critical CVEs over threshold

This is an example of a typical upload-to-store stage, which is saved in /workspace/upload-to-store/out.yaml:

store:
  locations:
    - http://metadata-store.cluster.local:8080/reports/3