DevOps & CI/CD

Container Image Vulnerability Scanning Gate

DevOps & CI/CD diagram · made in Skemio

Flowchart depicting container scan gate: build image, pull CVE DB, check severity, reject or sign and push.
Flowchart depicting container scan gate: build image, pull CVE DB, check severity, reject or sign and push.

What it shows

  • Scan container images directly before promoting to artifact registries.
  • Block the pipeline on critical or high severity CVEs with zero fixes.
  • Sign approved artifacts with Cosign to guarantee deployment integrity.

The takeaway

Automated security gates at promotion block CVEs without slowing down engineering release cadence.

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