Content Hints

For an overview of the content hints and overrides features, see the feature overview

Enabling Content Hints

This feature is disabled by default to ensure that images may not exercise this feature without the admin’s explicit approval.

In each analyzer’s config.yaml file (by default at /config/config.yaml):

Set the enable_hints: true setting in the analyzer service section of config.yaml.

If using the default config.yaml included in the image, you may instead set an environment variable (e.g for use in our provided config for Docker Compose):

ANCHORE_HINTS_ENABLED=true environment variable for the analyzer service.

For Helm: see the Helm installation instructions for enabling the hints file mechanism when deploying with Helm.