Anchore Toolbox is a collection of lightweight, single-purpose, easy to use, open source DevSecOps tools that Anchore has developed for developers and DevOps teams who want to build their continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) pipeline.

We’re building Toolbox to support the open source DevSecOps community by providing easy-to-use just in time tools available at the command line interface (CLI). Our goal is for Toolbox to serve a fundamentally different need than Anchore Enterprise by offering DevSecOps teams single-purpose tools optimized for speed and ease of use.

The first tools to debut as part of Anchore Toolbox are Syft and Grype:

Syft

We built Syft from the ground up to be an open source analyzer that serves developers who want to “shift left” and scan their projects still in development. You can use Syft to scan a container image, but also a directory inside your development project.

Syft tells you what’s inside your super complicated project or container and builds you a detailed software bill of materials (SBOM). You can output an SBOM from Syft as a text file, table, or JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) file and includes native output support for the CycloneDX format. 

Installing Syft

We provide everything you need, including full documentation for installing Syft over on GitHub.

Grype

Grype is an open source project to scan your project or container for known vulnerabilities. Grype uses the latest information from the same Anchore feed services as Anchore Engine. You can use Grype to identify vulnerabilities in most Linux operating system packages and language artifacts, including NPM, Python, Ruby, and Java.

Grype provides output similar to Syft, including table, text, and JSON. You can use Grype on container images or just directories. 

Installing Grype

We provide everything you need, including full documentation for installing Grype over on GitHub.

Anchore’s Open Source Portfolio and DevSecOps

Open source is a building block of today’s DevSecOps toolchain and integral to the growth of the DevSecOps community’s growth at large. Anchore Toolbox is part of our strategy to contribute to both the open source and DevSecOps communities and do our part to advance container security practices.

The Anchore Open Source Portfolio also includes two other elements:

  • Out-of-the-box integrations that connect Anchore open source technologies with common CI/CD platforms and developer tools with current integrations including GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, BitBucket Pipes, and Visual Studio Code
  • Anchore Engine, a persistent service that stores SBOMs and scan results for historical analysis and API-based interaction

Learn more about Anchore Toolbox

The best way to learn about Syft and Grype is to use them! Also, stay tuned this week for a blog on Thursday, October 8, 2020, from Dan Nurmi, Anchore CTO, who tells the story behind Anchore Toolbox and offers a look forward at what we plan to do with open source as a company.

Join the Anchore Community on Slack to learn more about Toolbox developments and interact with our online community, file issues, and give feedback about your experience with these new tools.