This topic describes how to set up recurring scans by using Supply Chain Security Tools (SCST) - Scan 2.0.
Scan workloads with updated vulnerability databases frequently. Use the scanner of your choice to scan images produced by your software supply chain, and any container images running in your Tanzu Application Platform clusters.
Use SCST - Scan 2.0 to schedule container image scans with the following capabilities:
Detect vulnerabilities without a supply chain run for the following container image sources:
Customize how far back you want to scan container images based on:
Use one of the ImageVulnerabilityScan
samples or create your own. For more information, see ImageVulnerabilityScan samples or Bring your own scanner using an ImageVulnerabilityScan.
View detected vulnerabilities from your most recent image built for a workload in the Tanzu Developer Portal Supply Chain Choreographer plug-in.
Use when either SCST - Scan 1.0 or SCST - Scan 2.0 is used to scan a recently built container in your supply chain.
Unlike scans that occur as part of the software supply chain, scans invoked by recurring scanning run as a centralized scan job in a single namespace. The scan job gathers images from all namespaces. To set up recurring scanning, you must create a RecurringImageVulnerabilityScan
. A RecurringImageVulnerabilityScan
defines:
Before you define your RecurringImageVulnerabilityScan
template, you must have:
Recurring scanning uses the SCST - Scan 2.0 component, which is in the Full
and Build
profiles.
NotePay special attention to the service accounts and credentials that are needed. For a simplified setup of the namespace, VMware recommends that you use Namespace Provisioner to create a namespace. Namespace Provisioner automatically creates the service accounts and secrets needed for images created by supply chains. The examples in this topic use a namespace created by Namespace Provisioner. For more information, see Namespace Provisioner.
RecurringImageVulnerabilityScan
templateUse the Grype and Trivy samples in a namespace created by Namespace Provisioner. The Grype and Trivy examples are a subset of this template. Add extra configurations from this template to the Grype and Trivy samples for more advanced configurations.
The following sample template provides an explanation of the input variables for the RecurringImageVulnerabilityScan
CR:
apiVersion: app-scanning.apps.tanzu.vmware.com/v1alpha1
kind: RecurringImageVulnerabilityScan
metadata:
name: recurring-scan-template
spec:
images:
ranWithinDays: RAN-INTERVAL
createdWithinDays: CREATED-INTERVAL
retentionPolicy:
maxFailedScans: FAILED-RETENTION
maxSuccessfulScans: SUCCESSFUL-RETENTION
schedule:
cron: CRON-SCHEDULE
startingDeadline: START-DEADLINE
scan:
activeKeychains:
# Only enable keychains for registries you are using
- name: acr # Azure Container Registry
- name: ecr # Elastic Container Registry
- name: gcr # Google Container Registry
- name: ghcr # Github Container Registry
workspace:
size: WORKSPACE-SIZE
scanResults:
location: RESULTS-REPOSITORY
steps:
STEPS-FROM-IVS-TEMPLATE
Where:
RAN-INTERVAL
: The number of earlier days of images from pods that have started on the Tanzu Application Platform clusters to scan.CREATED-INTERVAL
The number of earlier days of images from supply chains to scan.FAILED-RETENTION
: The number of failed recurring scan executions to keep in Kubernetes.CRON-SCHEDULE
: The schedule in which to invoke recurring scans in crontab format. For example, to execute a scan daily at 3:00 AM, the value is 0 3 * * *
START-DEADLINE
: The period of time beyond the scheduled start time when scans can be started if they did not start on time. If this period elapses, the scheduled scan is skipped.SUCCESSFUL-RETENTION
: The number of successful recurring scan executions to keep in Kubernetes.WORKSPACE-SIZE
: The size of the workspace used when scanning images. This is created as a Kubernetes PVC. This depends mostly on the size of the vulnerability database, the number of images to scan, and the output of the vulnerability scanner. 10Gi
is the recommended starting point.RESULTS-REPOSITORY
: The registry URL where results are uploaded. For example, my.registry/scan-results
.STEPS-FROM-IVS-TEMPLATE
: The steps to scan the list of the container images. For commonly used samples, see ImageVulnerabilityScan samples. To pass spec.image
and scanResults.location
to args
, you can use {image}
and {output}
respectively. These interpolation variables differ from the ones currently used in the ImageVulnerabilityScan
($(params.image)
and $(params.scan-results-path)
). The scan step must the last step in the steps
property.NotePay special attention to the scanning runtime, the scan frequency, and the configured deadline. Setting
RAN-INTERVAL
andCREATED-INTERVAL
to a large number of days can increase the number of images scanned, and in turn, the scanning runtime. If the scan runtime is greater than theCRON-SCHEDULE
frequency, the scans start to queue up. VMware recommends running the scan once every 24 hours at a time when your cluster load is low.
RecurringImageVulnerabilityScan
templateThe SCST - Scan 1.0 default scanner is Grype, and this template works with the SCST - Scan 1.0 default configuration.
NoteYou must match the scanner and version to the scanner and version used in the software supply chain. Using different types of scanners between build time and recurring scans is not supported and causes the Security Analysis plug-in in Tanzu Developer Portal to double count vulnerabilities.
To apply this configuration, save it to a file and apply it to the namespace created for recurring scans by running:
kubectl apply -f grype-recurring-scan.yaml --namespace NAMESPACE
This sample configuration downloads the latest Grype vulnerability database and then scans with the stored database, which prevents multiple database updates while running concurrent scans:
apiVersion: app-scanning.apps.tanzu.vmware.com/v1alpha1
kind: RecurringImageVulnerabilityScan
metadata:
name: grype-recurring-scan
spec:
images:
createdWithinDays: 180
ranWithinDays: 0
retentionPolicy:
maxFailedScans: 1
maxSuccessfulScans: 1
schedule:
cron: 0 3 * * *
startingDeadline: 60m
scan:
workspace:
size: 10Gi
scanResults:
location: RESULTS-REPOSITORY
steps:
- name: update-db
image: anchore/grype:latest
command: [/grype]
args:
- db
- update
env:
- name: GRYPE_DB_CACHE_DIR
value: /workspace/grype-cache
- name: grype-scan
image: anchore/grype:latest
command: [/grype]
args:
- "{image}"
- "-o"
- "cyclonedx-json"
- "--file"
- "{output}"
env:
- name: GRYPE_DB_AUTO_UPDATE
value: "false"
- name: GRYPE_CHECK_FOR_APP_UPDATE
value: "false"
- name: GRYPE_DB_CACHE_DIR
value: /workspace/grype-cache
The placeholder {image}
is replaced by the container images that are being scanned. This is equivalent to the $(params.image)
placeholder used in the ImageVulnerabilityScan
.
The placeholder {output}
is replaced by an auto-generated path to store the results for the scanned image. This is equivalent to the $(params.scan-results-path)
placeholder used in the ImageVulnerabilityScan
.
RecurringImageVulnerabilityScan
templateThe SCST - Scan 2.0 default scanner is Trivy, and this template works with the Scan 2.0 default configuration.
NoteYou must match the scanner and version to the scanner and version used in the software supply chain. Using different types of scanners between build time and recurring scans is not supported, and causes the Security Analysis plug-in in Tanzu Developer Portal to double count vulnerabilities.
To apply this configuration, save it to a file and apply it to the namespace created for recurring scans by running:
kubectl apply -f trivy-recurring-scan.yaml --namespace NAMESPACE
This sample configuration downloads the latest Trivy vulnerability and Java databases and then scans with the stored databases, which prevents multiple database updates while running concurrent scans:
apiVersion: app-scanning.apps.tanzu.vmware.com/v1alpha1
kind: RecurringImageVulnerabilityScan
metadata:
name: trivy-recurring-scan
spec:
images:
createdWithinDays: 180
ranWithinDays: 0
retentionPolicy:
maxFailedScans: 1
maxSuccessfulScans: 1
schedule:
cron: 0 3 * * *
startingDeadline: 60m
scan:
workspace:
size: 10Gi
scanResults:
location: RESULTS-REPOSITORY
steps:
- name: update-db
image: aquasec/trivy:0.48.3
command: [/usr/local/bin/trivy]
args:
- image
- --download-db-only
- --no-progress
- --cache-dir=/workspace/trivy-cache
- name: update-java-db
image: aquasec/trivy:0.48.3
command: [/usr/local/bin/trivy]
args:
- image
- --download-java-db-only
- --no-progress
- --cache-dir=/workspace/trivy-cache
- name: trivy-generate-report
image: aquasec/trivy:0.48.3
command: [/usr/local/bin/trivy]
args:
- image
- '{image}'
- --exit-code=0
- --no-progress
- --scanners=vuln
- --format=cyclonedx
- --output={output}
- --cache-dir=/workspace/trivy-cache
- --skip-db-update
- --skip-java-db-update
The placeholder {image}
is replaced by the container images being scanned. This is equivalent to the $(params.image)
placeholder used in the ImageVulnerabilityScan
.
The placeholder {output}
is replaced by an auto-generated path to store the results for the scanned image. This is equivalent to the $(params.scan-results-path)
placeholder used in the ImageVulnerabilityScan
.
NoteDo not enclose the
{output}
interpolation value in quotation marks for a Trivy scan.