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Using the Trivy operator

Using the Trivy operator

- Now that we've had a chance to use the CLI version of Trivy, wouldn't it be nice if we had something that we could use in our cluster so that we could constantly be scanning for any types of vulnerabilities or any type of issue? Well, guess what? Your dreams do not have to be something that you just hope for. You can actually use the Trivy Operator to be able to accomplish just that goal. So the Trivy Operator was built as a mechanism to be able to load Trivy into a Kubernetes cluster and being able to use it to integrate with Kubernetes so that you can then be able to take advantage of it in your cluster in near realtime. So the installation occurs via Helm and there's a lot of different things that we can do here. We can look for compliance, you know, all the things that we would typically do within the Trivy platform, you can do within the operator. Now, all of these different capabilities are available to you and you can see here on the GitHub site there's a lot of information…

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