Scanning Container Security

Overview

Scan container images and Dockerfiles for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and compliance violations using Trivy, Grype, Snyk Container, and Hadolint. Analyze base images, OS packages, application dependencies, and runtime configurations to produce actionable security reports with remediation guidance.

Prerequisites

• Container scanning tool installed: trivy, grype, snyk, or docker scout
• Dockerfile linter: hadolint for Dockerfile best practice validation
• Docker daemon running for local image scanning
• Access to the container images to scan (local, registry, or tar archive)
• jq for parsing JSON scan results

Instructions