Sysdig Secure Jenkins Plugin

Sysdig Secure is a container security platform that brings together Docker image scanning and run-time protection to identify vulnerabilities, block threats, enforce compliance, and audit activity across your microservices. The Sysdig Secure Jenkins plugin can be used in a Pipeline job, or added as a build step to a Freestyle job to automate the process of running an image analysis, evaluating custom policies against images, and performing security scans.

Table of Contents

• Getting Started
  • Backend scanning or Inline scanning
    • Backend Scanning
    • Inline Scanning
  • Pre-requisites
  • Installation
  • Configuration
• Images file
• Example 1: Integrate the Sysdig Secure Plugin with a Freestyle Project
• Example 2: Executing the Sysdig plugin inside a pipeline
• Configuration Options
• Proxy Configuration
• Plugin outputs
• Local development and installation

Getting Started

Backend scanning or Inline scanning

The Sysdig Secure plugin supports two different operation modes:

• Backend Scanning: Image scanning happens in the Sysdig Secure Backend
• Inline Scanning: Image scanning happens in the Jenkins worker nodes

Backend Scanning

PRO:

• Jenkins workers do not need to communicate with the host-local Docker daemon

CON:

• Sysdig Secure Backend needs to have network visibility in order to fetch and scan the images during the pipeline

Inline Scanning

PRO:

• No need to configure registry credentials in the Sysdig Secure Backend
• No need to expose your registry externally, so it can be reached by Sysdig Secure (see CON in the section above)
• Image contents are never transmitted outside the pipeline, just the image metadata

CON:

• The job performing the inline scanning needs to have access to the host-local Docker daemon

Pre-requisites

Pre-requisites

Both modes require a valid Sysdig Secure API token

For Backend mode, the Sysdig Backend (SaaS or Onprem) needs to be able to fetch the images produced by this pipeline, usually accessing a buffer Docker repository.

For Inline mode, Jenkins workers need to have access to the host-local Docker daemon, in the most common case, by mounting or linking the Docker socket. The Jenkins worker user needs to be able to read and write the socket.

Installation

The Sysdig Secure plugin is published in the Jenkins plugin registry, and is available for installation on any Jenkins server.

1. https://github.com/jenkinsci/sysdig-secure-plugin

Configuration

To configure the Sysdig Secure plugin:

1. Complete these steps after installing the hpi file from the installation link above.

2. From the main Jenkins menu, select Manage Jenkins.

3. Click the Configure System link.
   

4. Scroll to the Sysdig Secure Plugin section.

5. Create a new credential containing the Sysdig API key found here (You just need to fill the password field): https://secure.sysdig.com/#/settings/user

   

6. Configure the Sysdig Backend URL, https://secure.sysdig.com if you are using SaaS or your own if you are using an on-prem installation, and select the previously created credential.

   Mark the Inline scanning option in case you have decided to use Inline scanning:

   

7. Click Save.

Images file

The Sysdig Secure plugin reads a file called sysdig_secure_images (by default) for the list of images to scan.

This simple file follows the following format:

<imagename1> <Dockerfile path1>
<imagename2> <Dockerfile path2>
...

Dockerfile path is optional, can be included if we want to forward this information to the evaluation process.

Example:

myimage:3.11 ./build/Dockerfile
alpine:latest 

Example 1: Integrate the Sysdig Secure Plugin with a Freestyle Project

1. Using the Jenkins Docker plugin for this example, you could start by building the image and writing the image name to the sysdig_secure_images file

   

2. Open the Add build step drop-down menu, and select Sysdig Secure Container Image Scanner. This creates a new build step labeled Sysdig Secure Build Options.
   

3. Configure the available options, and click Save.
   

💬 Take into account that this example is using the Inline scanning mode, in case you want to use Backend scanning, you would need to push the image to a registry that is pulleable by the Sysdig Backend.

Example 2: Executing the Sysdig plugin inside a pipeline

The following is a simplified example executing the Sysdig plugin as a stage inside a pipeline

stages {
    stage('Checkout') {
        steps {                
            checkout scm
        }
    }
    stage('Build Image') {
        steps {
            sh "docker build -f Dockerfile -t ${params.DOCKER_REPOSITORY} ."
            sh "echo ${params.DOCKER_REPOSITORY} > sysdig_secure_images"
        }
    }
    stage('Scanning Image') {
        steps {
            sysdig engineCredentialsId: 'sysdig-secure-api-credentials', name: 'sysdig_secure_images', inlineScanning: true
        }
    }
}

The table below describes each of the configuration options.

Configuration Options

The following is an example of executing the Sysdig Secure plugin as a Jenkinsfile step, modifying the default parameters

sysdig bailOnFail: false, bailOnPluginFail: false, engineCredentialsId: 'sysdig-secure-api-credentials', engineurl: 'https://secure.sysdig.com', inlineScanning: true, name: 'sysdig_secure_images'

Proxy configuration

Backend scan

Backend scan connects to Sysdig Secure backend from the Jenkins master node, so it will use the Jenkins proxy configuration.

Inline scan

Inline scan is executed in the worker node, so proxy is configured with the standard environment variables http_proxy, https_proxy and no_proxy.

Static agent configuration

For static agents, go to Manage Jenkins -> Manage Nodes and select the corresponding agent, then click Configure.

Check Environment variables under Node Properties and define the http_proxy, https_proxy and no_proxy variables in there as required.

Kubernetes cloud configuration (pod templates)

For agents using pods and containers provided by the Kubernetes cloud plugin, the environment variables are defined in the pod template.

Go to the Kubernetes plugin configuration (Manage Jenkins -> Manage Nodes and Clouds -> Configure Clouds).

There, check the Pod Template details to display the available pod templates:

Edit the desired pod template, and add the environment variables to the container where the Inline scan will run:

For pod templates defined in the pipeline, you can add the environment variables directly in the YAML:

pipeline {
    agent {
       kubernetes {
           yaml """
apiVersion: v
kind: Pod
metadata:
    name: custom-pod
spec:
    containers:
      - name: builder
        image: docker:dind
        securityContext:
          privileged: true
        ...
        env:
        # Set the environment variables for the DinD container
        - name: http_proxy
          value: http://my-proxy:8080
...
"""
       }
   }

Plugin outputs

Once the scanning and evaluation is complete, you will have the following build artifacts and reports in the workspace

sysdig_secure_gates.json Scanning results for the Sysdig policy evaluation.

sysdig_secure_security.json Detected vulnerability data

Additionally, the plugin offers you an HTML formatted table output that you can directly display from the interface (Sysdig Secure Report (FAIL) in the image above)

Local development and installation

Use docker to build the sysdig-secure.hpi file:

docker run -it --rm --name maven-jenkins-builder -v "$(pwd)":/usr/src/app -w /usr/src/app maven:3.3-jdk-8 mvn package

You can then install the plugin via the Jenkins UI, or by copying it into $JENKINS_HOME/plugins.