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IaC Scanning with Checkmarx KICS #79

IaC Scanning with Checkmarx KICS

IaC Scanning with Checkmarx KICS #79

# https://github.com/Checkmarx/kics
# https://github.com/Checkmarx/kics/blob/master/docs/integrations_ghactions.md
# https://github.com/Checkmarx/kics-github-action
name: IaC Scanning with Checkmarx KICS
on:
push:
branches: [main]
pull_request:
branches: [main]
schedule:
- cron: '15 03 * * 5'
permissions:
contents: read # for actions/checkout to fetch code
security-events: write # for github/codeql-action/upload-sarif to upload SARIF results
actions: read # only required for a private repository by github/codeql-action/upload-sarif to get the Action run status
jobs:
kics-scan:
name: Run KICS scan
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Checkout code
uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Mkdir results-dir
# make sure results dir is created
run: mkdir -p results-dir
- name: Run kics Scan
uses: checkmarx/[email protected]
with:
path: 'terraform'
# when provided with a directory on output_path
# it will generate the specified reports file named 'results.{extension}'
# in this example it will generate:
# - results-dir/results.json
# - results-dir/results.sarif
ignore_on_exit: results
output_path: results-dir
platform_type: terraform
output_formats: 'json,sarif'
enable_comments: true
- name: Show results
run: |
cat results-dir/results.sarif
cat results-dir/results.json
- name: Upload SARIF file to GitHub Security tab
uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@v3
with:
sarif_file: results-dir/results.sarif