Trivy, Checked Against The Published Checksums
trivy on EL 10 from the GitHub release, refused by Ansible's get_url unless its SHA-256 is the one in Aqua's checksums file, and re-checked with sha256sum -c by the live test, which then runs a license scan of /etc, the one scanner that needs no database, and expects the report. The vulnerability database is fetched on first use, not by the role. Original role, live-tested on Rocky Linux 10.
Verification
Live-testedReally deployed to a container sandbox, proven idempotent (a second run changes nothing), verified against the role’s assertions, then torn down.
Conformance
- Static validation (yamllint · ansible-lint)
Provenance
- SHA-256 checksum
- Signature (pending)
Functional
- Live-tested - applied, verified, destroyed
Last verified 2026-09-20 · podman 4.9.3 · ansible 2.21.4 · how we verify
Documentation
trivy
Aqua Security trivy on EL 10 from the vendor's release, checked against the
published SHA-256, pinned to a version, installed as root's binary
in /usr/local/bin. Original role for EL 10, live-tested with podman on
Rocky Linux 10.
No package worth the name. EL 10 carries no trivy, and a
third-party repository is one more key to trust. This role takes the
release from github.com/aquasecurity/trivy, has Ansible's get_url refuse the asset unless
its SHA-256 is the published one, and the live test checks the asset on
disk against the same published value again.
Pinned. trivy_version is what gets installed, kept in a directory
of its own so the checksum file and the asset it names stay together. A
newer release is a variable change and a run; the same version is
changed=0.
Proven to run. The live test runs trivy fs --scanners license --skip-db-update -q /etc and expects
"Clean (no security findings detected)" - the binary ran all the way to the point where it
needed something this host does not have.
The scanner without its database. Trivy's vulnerability database
is downloaded on first use from a registry (about 60 MB, refreshed every
six hours by default); this role installs the binary only and does not
pre-fetch it, so an air-gapped host still needs trivy image --download-db-only
somewhere with network and the cache copied over. The live test runs a
license scan of /etc, the one scanner that needs no database, and
expects the report's legend. Aqua names its Linux builds Linux-64bit
and Linux-ARM64, which is what the architecture map says.
License
Commercial - IaC Bazaar EULA. (c) IaC Bazaar.
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