Friday, May 23, 2025

How to Automate Security Scan of Terraform Files using Checkov with Jenkins Pipeline? | How to Perform Security scan for Terraform Files using Checkov?

 

Checkov is a static code analysis tool designed to scan Infrastructure as Code (IaC) files and identify potential security and compliance misconfigurations. 

Pre-requisites:

Jenkins pipeline code:

Below Jenkins Pipeline code scan Terraform files and write the output to a file which can be viewed in Jenkins.

pipeline {

    agent any
    stages {
        stage('Checkout') {
            steps {
                git 'https://github.com/akannan1087/myInfra2021Repo'
            }
        }

        stage('Run Checkov Scan') {
            steps {
                sh 'checkov -d . -o junitxml > checkov-report.xml || true'
            }
        }

        stage('Publish Report') {
            steps {
                junit 'checkov-report.xml'
            }
        }
    }
    
    post {
        always {
            archiveArtifacts artifacts: 'checkov-report.xml', fingerprint: true
        }
    }
}


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