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  • ✓Last commit 1d ago
  • ✓25+ active contributors
  • ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 25% of recent commits)
  • ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
  • ✓CI configured
  • ✓Tests present

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Repository brief

Repo brief: aquasecurity/trivy

Generated by RepoPilot · document generated 2026-09-16 · concise human review Evidence snapshot · analyzed 2026-09-16T21:28:36.651Z · commit dcfb99218f07

Verdict

Healthy — Healthy across all four use cases

  • Last commit 1d ago
  • 25+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 25% of recent commits)
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • 2 more receipts on the live page

Based on Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

What it is

Trivy is a comprehensive security scanner written in Go that detects vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, and SBOMs across container images, filesystems, Git repositories, VMs, and Kubernetes clusters. It combines multiple scanners (vulnerability detection, IaC analysis, secret detection, license compliance) with multiple target types, making it a unified tool for supply-chain security across the entire infrastructure and application stack. Monolithic Go application with modular internal structure: internal/ contains testing helpers and infrastructure (cache, git, registry, crypto tests), pkg/ contains functional packages (cache implementations, attestation, clock), and top-level…

Start here

Open these first:

  • pkg/commands/app.go — Main application entry point that orchestrates CLI commands and scanner initialization.
  • pkg/commands/artifact/scanner.go — Core scanner abstraction that coordinates vulnerability and misconfiguration detection across different artifact types.
  • pkg/cache/client.go — Cache abstraction layer supporting filesystem, Redis, and memory backends for vulnerability database caching.
  • pkg/db/db.go — Vulnerability database interface and lifecycle management for storing and retrieving security findings.
  • pkg/attestation/attestation.go — SBOM and attestation verification logic integrating with Rekor for supply chain security validation.

Get running

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Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy.git && cd trivy. Verify the go.mod file exists (confirmed: module github.com/org/repo, go 1.16). Install dependencies: go mod download. Build the…

Daily commands:

No Makefile or docker-compose.yml in file list; verify repository root for build configuration. Based on Go module structure: go run ./cmd/trivy image python:3.4-alpine to scan a container image, or `go run ./cmd/triv…

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Key cautions & unknowns

  • No Dockerfile build instructions visible in file list, but Docker distribution is documented—verify build context and multi-stage setup in repository root before deploying containers. Redis cache (pkg/cache/redis.go)…
  • Exact package version, compatibility, provenance, and deployment context still need project-specific review.

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