trivy

GitHub Repo Pretty sure · battle-tested in prod

Trivy is the unglamorous workhorse of container security—does the boring job of finding actual CVEs and misconfigs without requiring a PhD in YAML. Aqua's open source loss leader, but it works.

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Trivy is a practical vulnerability scanner with legitimate utility: it scans containers, filesystems, VMs, K8s clusters, and Git repos for real security issues (CVEs, IaC misconfigs, secrets). Go codebase, multiple distribution channels (brew, docker, binary), active CI/CD integration (GitHub Actions, K8s operator, VS Code plugin). The math: science is modest (applies existing CVE databases + some static analysis, not novel research), slop is low (straightforward CLI, no marketing fluff in th...

33571 stars Go 2026-03-19 2537 days old

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