Anchore Enterprise vs Dockle

Anchore Enterprise is an SBOM-powered platform for continuous software supply-chain security and compliance. It generates software bills of materials for containers, source code, and filesystems in Syft, CycloneDX, and SPDX formats, then continuously scans those SBOMs for vulnerabilities, secrets, and malware. Policy packs cover NIST, FedRAMP, and DISA, while policy-as-code rules use JSON instructions that can be version controlled in Git. Runtime inventory can cover images running across EKS, ECS, AKE, GKE, and OpenShift clusters. Deployment options include an AWS machine image or container images installed with Helm on Kubernetes-compatible platforms, including air-gapped environments. Every feature and operation can be instrumented through an API. Integrations include major CI, registry, and cloud services such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Amazon ECR, Azure DevOps, Docker Hub, and Harbor. It supports API, Linux, self-hosted, and web environments. Pricing is on request; there is no free plan, but a free trial is available.

Dockle is a free, self-hosted container image linter focused on security and Docker best practices. It scans images for vulnerabilities and checks settings against CIS Docker Image Benchmarks, along with Docker- and Linux-specific issues such as empty passwords and duplicate user or group IDs. Results can be displayed or saved in JSON and SARIF formats. Users can set an exit level and ignore selected checkpoints through command options, environment variables, or a .dockleignore file. The project documents continuous-integration use and provides a GitHub Action, with examples for Travis CI, CircleCI, and GitLab CI. Dockle can access private images in Docker Hub, Amazon ECR, Google Container Registry, and self-hosted registries. It can also scan an image archive created with docker save by using the --input option. Installation routes include Homebrew, Linux distribution packages, Windows binaries, version managers, source builds, and Docker. Dockle runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows and is listed under the Apache-2.0 license.