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Sonatype Container Scanner vs Trivy

Sonatype Container Scanner

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FigureSonatype Container ScannerTrivy
Price from—Free
Free plan—Yes
Free trial——
Open source——
WindowsYesYes
macOS—Yes
LinuxYesYes
APIYes—
Self-hostedYesYes
Plans published11
Spec score · Container Image Scanning Tools7.1 (#17)8.2 (#6)
CI integrationsSupported CI integrations listed for the scanner include Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and Bamboo.The docs list official Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions integrations, alongside community integrations for other CI systems.
FoundedSonatype's company timeline says it began in 2001 as a project by core contributors to Apache Maven.2015
HeadquartersSonatype lists its headquarters at 8161 Maple Lawn Blvd #250, Fulton, Maryland 20759, United States.Boston, Massachusetts, and Ramat Gan, Israel

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Trivy

Trivy is a free, Apache-2.0-licensed scanner for code repositories, binary artifacts, container images, and Kubernetes clusters. Its scanners cover vulnerabilities, infrastructure-as-code misconfigurations, secrets, and licenses, and it can generate software bills of materials. Vulnerability checks include operating-system and language-specific packages, some non-packaged software, and Kubernetes components. Configuration checks cover Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CloudFormation files, and users can write custom checks. Trivy supports ecosystems including Ruby, Python, PHP, Node.js, .NET, Java, Go, Rust, C/C++, Elixir, Dart, Swift, Julia, and operating-system packages. It can run as a CI/CD binary without middleware or database dependencies and can be used in air-gapped environments. Installation options include container images, release binaries, package repositories, Homebrew, and Windows downloads; official integrations include Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions. Results can be exported as JUnit XML, SARIF, and ASFF. The vulnerability scanner documentation says third-party or self-compiled packages and binaries are unsupported, and the scanner may skip third-party packages. Trivy automatically fetches and maintains the security databases it needs for scans. The project is identified as Go software under the Apache-2.0 License; Aqua Security is listed as founded in 2015 with headquarters in Boston and Ramat Gan.

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