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What is Trivy?

An open-source security scanner for container images, filesystems, and IaC configurations.

Trivy is an open-source vulnerability scanner by Aqua Security. It scans container images, filesystems, Git repositories, and IaC files (Terraform, Kubernetes manifests) for vulnerabilities (CVEs), misconfigurations, secrets, and license compliance issues. Trivy is fast, accurate, and easy to integrate into CI/CD pipelines. It's commonly used as a gate: fail the pipeline if HIGH or CRITICAL vulnerabilities are found in the Docker image before pushing to a registry.

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