RktWhat is Clair?
Clair is a container vulnerability analysis service by CoreOS. It provides the list of vulnerabilities that threaten each container and can sends notifications whenever new vulnerabilities that affect existing containers are released.
Clair is a tool in the Container Registry category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Api defines how users interact with Clair and exposes a documented HTTP APIWorker extracts useful informations from layers and store everything in the databaseUpdater periodically updates Clair's vulnerability database from known vulnerability sourcesNotifier dispatches notifications about vulnerable containers when vulnerabilities are released or updatedDatabase persists layers informations and vulnerabilities in Cayley graph databaseHealth summarizes health checks of every Clair's services
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Clair Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Clair?
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
Docker Compose
With Compose, you define a multi-container application in a single file, then spin your application up in a single command which does everything that needs to be done to get it running.
Rancher
Rancher is an open source container management platform that includes full distributions of Kubernetes, Apache Mesos and Docker Swarm, and makes it simple to operate container clusters on any cloud or infrastructure platform.
