DEVOPSdigest

Anchore announced that Syft, an open source tool to generate a software bill of materials (SBOM), is included in the new Docker Desktop 4.7.0 release.

The new "docker sbom" command displays the SBOM of any Docker image and is built with Syft, an open source tool maintained by Anchore. The added function is the result of an open source collaboration between Anchore and Docker and is intended to give users deep visibility into container images to proactively secure the software supply chain.

"For organizations who have development teams that need to minimize supply chain risk while building modern, secure, and reliable applications, Docker SBOM provides developers visibility into the security, compliance, and quality of all layers of their images so they can quickly determine if images are vulnerable," said Webb Stevens, Docker's SVP of Secure Software Supply Chain. "With Docker SBOM, developers can easily avoid vulnerable images at the beginning of a build or new release. We're proud to work with Anchore to make software supply chains as secure as possible."

"With this collaboration between Anchore and Docker, we are giving more than 13 million Docker users the ability to create and store an SBOM as an independent operation," said Dan Nurmi, CTO of Anchore. "We believe that SBOM data is foundational to improve software supply chain security and provides the component visibility necessary to create secure software applications."

The new "docker sbom" command provides users with comprehensive visibility into the software components included in a container image, including direct and transitive dependencies. It enables Docker Desktop users to quickly generate detailed SBOMs in the native Docker CLI. Docker users can generate an SBOM document in SPDX, CycloneDX, and Syft-JSON formats, and then use the SBOM as input for other tools that are capable of consuming an SBOM, such as the Grype open source tool for vulnerability scanning.