30 Containers Static Analysis Tools

Mega-Linter can handle any type of project thanks to its 70+ embedded Linters, its advanced reporting, runnable on any CI system or locally, with assisted installation and configuration, able to apply formatting and fixes

In-depth static analysis to find issues in verticals of bug risks, security, anti-patterns, performance, documentation and style. Native integrations with GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket. Less than 5% false positives.

KubeLinter is a static analysis tool that checks Kubernetes YAML files and Helm charts to ensure the applications represented in them adhere to best practices.

Automated code review tool integrates with GitHub, Bitbucket and GitLab (even self-hosted). Available for JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Ruby, Go, PHP, Java, Docker, and more. (open-source free)

A CLI tool to prevent Kubernetes misconfigurations by ensuring that manifests and Helm charts follow best practices as well as your organization’s policies

A smarter Dockerfile linter that helps you build best practice Docker images.

Static code analysis of your Kubernetes object definitions.

A Simple and Comprehensive Vulnerability Scanner for Containers and other Artifacts, Suitable for CI. Trivy detects vulnerabilities of OS packages (Alpine, RHEL, CentOS, etc.) and application dependencies (Bundler, Composer, npm, yarn, etc.). Checks containers and filesystems.

Automated code analysis tool to deal with technical depth. Integrates with Bitbucket and Gitlab. (free for Open Source Projects)

Find security vulnerabilities, compliance issues, and infrastructure misconfigurations in your infrastructure-as-code. Supports Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS CloudFormation and Ansible

Vulnerability scanner for dependencies of node.js apps (free for Open Source Projects).

Vulnerability Scanner and Risk Evaluation for containers, serverless and hosts at runtime. ThreatMapper generates runtime BOMs from dependencies and operating system packages, matches against multiple threat feeds, scans for unprotected secrets, and scores issues based on severity and risk-of-exploit.

Discover, analyze, and certify container images. A service that analyzes Docker images and applies user-defined acceptance policies to allow automated container image validation and certification

ct is the the tool for testing Helm charts. It is meant to be used for linting and testing pull requests. It automatically detects charts changed against the target branch.

Vulnerability Static Analysis for Containers.

Clusterlint queries live Kubernetes clusters for resources, executes common and platform specific checks against these resources and provides actionable feedback to cluster operators. It is a non invasive tool that is run externally. Clusterlint does not alter the resource configurations.

Automated Code Analysis for repos on GitHub or BitBucket.

Perform static analysis of known vulnerabilities in docker images/containers.

Lint and validate Dockerfile labels.

A linter for Kubernetes resources with a customizable rule set. You define a list of rules that you would like to validate against your resources and kube-lint will evaluate those rules against them.

KubeLinter is a static analysis tool that checks Kubernetes YAML files and Helm charts to ensure the applications represented in them adhere to best practices.

Validates your Kubernetes configuration files and supports multiple Kubernetes versions.

Commercial Static Code Analysis system doesn't require building the source code or pre-compilation.

Suite of automated audit tools to examine the configuration and known vulnerabilities following the NIST-certified Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP).

Container native application protection to provide visibility and control of containerized applications.

Combination of multiple linters to install as a GitHub Action.

A secure DevOps platform for cloud and container forensics. Built on an open source stack, Sysdig provides Docker image scanning and created Falco, the open standard for runtime threat detection for containers, Kubernetes and cloud.

Agent-less Linux vulnerability scanner based on information from NVD, OVAL, etc. It has some container image support, although is not a container specific tool.

Run arbitrary scripts inside containers, and gather useful information.

Scan is a free open-source DevSecOps platform for detecting security issues in source code and dependencies. It supports a broad range of languages and CI/CD pipelines.