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CI/CD Security Scanning and Quality Gates

Add security scanning to your CI/CD pipeline, configure branch protection rules, and enforce quality gates that prevent merging broken or insecure code.

120 minutes
devops/cicd
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Lab Overview

🛠 Lab from the Platform Engineering Bootcamp. Used in Week 3. Bootcamp landing page: https://academy.tekanaid.com/bootcamps/platform-engineering-bootcamp Parent course(s):

  • Week 3: Git, GitHub & CI/CD Fundamentals (slug: git-github-cicd-fundamentals)

🟡 Beta bootcamp lab. Hands-on instructions, check scripts, and solve scripts are in place. Lab is part of the running TaskFlow project that grows across all 21 weeks of the bootcamp.

This lab continues CI/CD Code Quality by focusing on security scanning and automated quality gate enforcement.

You'll learn to:

  • Run npm audit security scans in GitHub Actions workflows
  • Configure branch protection rules to require passing checks
  • Create quality gates that block merges when security or quality checks fail
  • Test your quality gates by intentionally breaking checks

Builds on CI/CD Code Quality Part 1 and completes your automated quality pipeline.

What You'll Learn

Add npm audit security scanning to GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows

Configure GitHub branch protection rules requiring passing CI checks

Create quality gates that automatically block merging of insecure or broken code

Validate quality gate enforcement by testing with intentional failures

Prerequisites

github-collaboration

cicd-code-quality

Technologies Covered

github-actionsci-cdsecurity-scanningquality-gatesbranch-protectionnpm-audit

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