Today, we are going to take a look inside the Containers Secure Supply Chain Framework, a framework from Microsoft that utilizes an agile ecosystem of tools and processes built to integrate and execute security controls throughout the lifecycle of containers.

Today, we are going to look at Azure API Management. Azure API Management is a service that creates consistent and modern API gateways for existing back-end services. It also publishes APIs to external, partner, and internal developers. Azure API Management is a fully managed service that enables customers to publish, secure, transform, maintain, and monitor APIs.

When working with Microsoft Azure, you may want an environment for learning, testing, or Hackathons. This post will cover some technical implementation considerations for creating a sandbox environment in Azure that could be used for your Hackathons using Terraform, Entra ID Access packages, and GitHub Actions.

Copacetic (or Copa for short) is a CLI tool written in Go and based on buildkit that can be used to directly patch container images given the vulnerability scanning results from popular tools like Trivy.

Trivy is a security scanner that can scan container images for vulnerabilities. It is a simple and comprehensive scanner that can be used to scan images for vulnerabilities in the OS packages, application dependencies, and language-specific packages, supplemented by vulnerability databases supplemented with Copa, which can be used to patch the vulnerabilities found by Trivy; this tool can be used to quickly patch container images without going upstream for a full rebuild, which may require more time, and the involvement of multiple teams (ie Developers, Q&A, Operations, Support) to patch, test and deploy.

In this article, we will use Azure DevOps to run a pipeline that will use Trivy to scan a container image for vulnerabilities, and then use Copa to patch the vulnerabilities found by Trivy, and then push the patched image to an Azure Container Registry (ACR).

GitHub Codespaces already have Docker preinstalled as a dependency for the Codespaces environment. This article will guide you through pulling and pushing a Docker image from DockerHub to Azure Container Registry using GitHub Codespaces.