What is Trivy?
It is a simple and comprehensive vulnerability scanner for containers and other artifacts. It detects vulnerabilities of OS packages (Alpine, RHEL, CentOS, etc.) and application dependencies (Bundler, Composer, npm, yarn, etc.). It is easy to use. Just install the binary and you're ready to scan. All you need to do for scanning is to specify a target such as an image name of the container.
Trivy is a tool in the Security category of a tech stack.
Key Features
SimpleFastEasy installationHigh accuracyDetect comprehensive vulnerabilitiesSuitable for CI such as Travis CI, CircleCI, Jenkins, GitLab CI, etcSupport multiple formats
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Trivy Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Trivy?
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.
OpenSSL
It is a robust, commercial-grade, and full-featured toolkit for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols. It is also a general-purpose cryptography library.
