Automating Vulnerability Scanning with Snyk, Trivy, and GitHub Dependabot in CI Pipelines

Shift-Left Security: Catching Flaws Early in Development

Remediating security flaws after production deployment costs up to 30x more than catching them during the pull request stage. Incorporating automated vulnerability scanners into CI workflows creates automated compliance guardrails.

Using Trivy in GitHub Actions

- name: Run Trivy Vulnerability Scanner
  uses: aquasecurity/trivy-action@master
  with:
    image-ref: 'my-app:${{ github.sha }}'
    format: 'table'
    exit-code: '1'
    ignore-unfixed: true
    severity: 'CRITICAL,HIGH'