Integration

Overview

Anchore Enterprise exposes an API through which external software entities like inventory agents can report their health status. These software entities (agents, plugins etc.) serve as a mechanism for external systems like Kubernetes clusters or container image repositories to integrate with Anchore Enterprise.

Enterprise refer these software entities simply as integrations. A deployed Kubernetes Inventory agent is example of an integration instance. A deployed Kubernetes Admission Controller is another example of an integration instance.

Integration health reporting

An integration instance can send health reports to Anchore Enterprise, which in turn maintains a record of those health reports. They are used by Enterprise to determine the status of the integration instances.

An integration instance can send a health report at most every 30 seconds. To prevent unlimited growth of stored health reports, Anchore’s Catalog Service will prune old health reports.

The configuration setting below allow you to specify how long health reports should be kept by Catalog Service. This is the default setting found in the values file.

services:
  catalog:
    integrations:
      integration_health_report_ttl_days: 2