Policy

Once an image has been analyzed and its content has been discovered, categorized, and processed, the results can be evaluated against a user-defined set of checks to give a final pass/fail recommendation for an image. Anchore Enterprise policies are how users describe which checks to perform on what images and how the results should be interpreted.

A policy is made up from a set of rules that are used to perform an evaluation a container image. The rules can define checks against an image for things such as:

security vulnerabilities
package allowlists and denylists
configuration file contents
presence of credentials in image
image manifest changes
exposed ports

These checks are defined as Gates that contain Triggers that perform specific checks and emit match results and these define the things that the system can automatically evaluate and return a decision about.

For a full listing of gate, triggers, and their parameters see: Anchore Policy Checks

These policies can be applied globally or customized for specific images or categories of applications.

A policy evaluation can return one of two results:

PASSED indicating that image complies with your policy alt text

FAILED indicating that the image is out of compliance with your policy.

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