clair.md

Clair

https://github.com/coreos/clair

https://quay.github.io/clair/whatis.html

Clair Security Scanner by Quay.io / Redhat

Open source static analysis image vulnerability scanner by CoreOS

Not as good quality, easy to use or reliable as Trivy / Grype in my experience, see this issue.

• Components
• Container Image
• Config
• CLI - ClairCtl
  • Install CLI

Components

• Indexer service
  • records layers of container images
• Matcher service
  • matches IndexReports from Indexer service against vulnerabilities
  • runs Updaters in the background to periodically download vulnerabilities info into DB

Container Image

https://quay.io/repository/projectquay/clair

Config

See HariSekhon/Templates clair.yaml for config

CLAIR_MODE=combo
CLAIR_CONF=/path/to/mounted/config.yaml

or CLI:

clair -conf "path/to/config.yaml" -mode "combo"  # indexer / matcher / notifier

CLI - ClairCtl

https://quay.github.io/clair/reference/clairctl.html

Submit manifest to clair using clairctl

HomeBrew

Installs the clair daemon not clairctl - there is no brew package for clairctl:

brew install clair

Install CLI

Make sure to run this outside any Go directory with a go.mod file:

GO111MODULE=on go install github.com/quay/clair/v4/cmd/clairctl@latest

Prints a manifest for a given docker image

clairctl manifest "$DOCKER_IMAGE:$DOCKER_TAG"

--host defaults to localhost:6060:

clairctl --host "$CLAIR_HOST" report "$DOCKER_IMAGE:$DOCKER_TAG"

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