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.
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
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