Azure DevOps

Integrate KICS with Azure Pipelines

You can integrate KICS into your Azure Pipelines CI/CD.

This provides you the ability to run KICS scans in your Azure DevOps repositories and streamline vulnerabilities and misconfiguration checks to your infrastructure as code (IaC).

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# Example using JSON format
#
trigger:
  - master
pool:
  vmImage: "ubuntu-latest"
container: checkmarx/kics:debian
steps:
  # running in CI mode, exporting results to a JSON file and printing the results in stdout
  # KICS should fail the pipeline if results are found
  - script: |
      /app/bin/kics scan --ci -p ${PWD} -o ${PWD}
      cat results.json

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Example Results

When your pipeline executes, it will run this job. If KICS finds any issues, it will fail the build.

Pipeline Failure

Pipeline Success

View SARIF report in Azure DevOps pipelines

It's also possible to view KICS results by publishing the SARIF report as a build artifact and installing the SARIF Azure DevOps Extension

1. Search for the SARIF Azure DevOps Extension in the extensions marketplace.
2. Install and give permissions to the plugin.
3. Create a pipeline to scan IaC with KICS, configure the results output in the SARIF format, and publish it as a build artifact with artifact named as CodeAnalysisLogs:

#
# Example using SARIF viewer:
# https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=sariftools.sarif-viewer-build-tab
#
trigger:
  - master
pool:
  vmImage: "ubuntu-latest"
container: checkmarx/kics:debian
steps:
  # run in CI mode, do not fail the pipeline on results found and export the report in both json and SARIF format.
  - script: |
      /app/bin/kics scan --ci -p ${PWD} -o ${PWD} --report-formats json,sarif --ignore-on-exit results
      cat results.json
  # scan results should be visible in the SARIF viewer tab of the build.
  - task: PublishBuildArtifacts@1
    inputs:
      pathToPublish: $(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)/results.sarif
      artifactName: CodeAnalysisLogs

Build status

SARIF report inside Azure Pipelines