Kubescape vs terraform-compliance

Kubescape is an open-source platform for Kubernetes security across configuration, images, compliance, and activity in running clusters. It analyzes Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, and live clusters for misconfigurations. Its operator scans deployed container images for vulnerabilities using Grype and public vulnerability databases, and monitors active clusters for suspicious behavior and threats. Kubescape supports CIS, NSA-CISA, MITRE ATT&CK, and SOC 2 frameworks. Its policy engine uses Open Policy Agent to evaluate Kubernetes objects against posture controls written in Rego; the operator runs as microservices that continuously monitor cluster posture. Integrations are available for GitHub, GitLab CI/CD, Lens, and Visual Studio Code. The CLI can download artifacts for local use, including in offline and air-gapped environments. Results can be exported as JSON or JUnit XML or rendered as HTML or PDF. The CLI and Kubernetes operator are self-hosted and free under Apache License 2.0. ARMO Platform is a compatible provider for uploading scan results and downloading custom artifacts; its price depends on vCPUs and other cloud resources.

terraform-compliance is a free, open-source framework for security and compliance testing of Terraform infrastructure as code. It checks Terraform plan or state output against policies written as behavior-driven feature files, and it can read plan output converted to JSON. Given steps establish context, When steps filter it, and Then steps fail scenarios when conditions are unmet. The project says it works with any Terraform provider and supports Terraform versions newer than 0.12. Checks can run before deployment, in pipelines, or through git hooks. Feature files may come from a local directory or Git repository, with SSH authentication for private repositories. Installation is documented through pip, requiring Python 3.x, or Docker. CI/CD examples cover CircleCI and GitHub Actions. Controls include warning-only failures, skipped-step failures, case-sensitive matching, and resource exclusion. The tool supports policy testing, admission control, and policy reporting, but not runtime enforcement. Its MIT license permits free use.