Dependency Scanning

GitHub does not ship a default SCA tool the way GitLab does. You have to combine two things: a platform feature called Dependabot and an SCA action from the Marketplace. In Part 3 of the GitHub DevSecOps series, Patrick Steger and I wire both into our pipeline — and find out the hard way that the Marketplace path is not as smooth as the slides suggest.

Your code is the small part. The libraries you pull in are the big part — and that is where most of your CVEs live. In Part 3 of the GitLab DevSecOps series, Patrick Steger and I bring up a tiny Spring Boot demo, wire it into a GitLab pipeline, and then add Software Composition Analysis with a single include line.