Container & Kubernetes SecurityOpen source · Apache-2.0
Trivy
A widely used open-source scanner covering container images (OS packages and language dependencies), IaC misconfigurations, exposed secrets, SBOM generation, and live Kubernetes clusters via the Trivy Operator. Created and maintained by Aqua Security — despite its ubiquity in cloud-native pipelines it is not a CNCF project.
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- Product type
- Software
- Deployment
- CLI
- Organization size
- IndividualSMBMid-marketEnterprise
- Pricing tier
- Free
Capability checklist
How Trivy measures up against the full Container & Kubernetes Security taxonomy.
- Container image scanning — supported
- Scans container images for vulnerabilities and exposed secrets before deployment.
- Runtime threat detection — not supported
- Detects anomalous process and system-call behavior in running containers.
- Kubernetes posture management (KSPM) — supported
- Flags misconfigured cluster settings, RBAC, and pod security policies.
- Admission control — not supported
- Blocks noncompliant workloads from being deployed to the cluster in the first place.
- Runtime response actions — not supported
- Kills, isolates, or quarantines a compromised container or pod.
- Registry scanning — not supported
- Continuously rescans image registries for newly disclosed vulnerabilities.
Alternatives
Other Container & Kubernetes Security tools with overlapping capabilities, sized for similar teams.
Appears in stacks
Real-world stacks that include Trivy.