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This document provides a comprehensive guide for implementing a secure CI/CD pipeline using tools like GitHub, Jenkins, SonarQube, and Kubernetes. It outlines a step-by-step process that includes securing source code management, setting up CI pipelines, managing secrets, and ensuring container image security. The guide emphasizes the importance of security checks throughout the pipeline and offers a checklist for maintaining security best practices.

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Secure Cicd

This document provides a comprehensive guide for implementing a secure CI/CD pipeline using tools like GitHub, Jenkins, SonarQube, and Kubernetes. It outlines a step-by-step process that includes securing source code management, setting up CI pipelines, managing secrets, and ensuring container image security. The guide emphasizes the importance of security checks throughout the pipeline and offers a checklist for maintaining security best practices.

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Complete Secure CI/CD Pipeline Implementation 🔐🚀

A secure CI/CD pipeline ensures safe and efficient application delivery while preventing
security vulnerabilities. This guide outlines a step-by-step implementation of a secure CI/CD
pipeline using GitHub, Jenkins, SonarQube, JFrog Artifactory, Kubernetes, and security tools
like Trivy, Snyk, and Aqua Security.

🔹 Secure CI/CD Pipeline Architecture

📌 Tools Used:

 Source Code Management → GitHub / Bitbucket

 CI/CD Automation → Jenkins / GitHub Actions

 Code Security (SAST) → SonarQube, Snyk

 Dependency Security (SCA) → OWASP Dependency-Check

 Secrets Management → HashiCorp Vault / AWS Secrets Manager

 Container Image Security (SCA & Scanning) → Trivy / Aqua Security

 Artifact Repository → JFrog Artifactory / Nexus

 Kubernetes Deployment → Helm + Kustomize

 Runtime Security & Monitoring → Falco, ELK Stack

🔹 Step-by-Step Secure CI/CD Pipeline Implementation

🔹 Step 1: Secure Source Code Management (SCM)

🔹 Use Private Repositories in GitHub/Bitbucket


🔹 Enable Branch Protection Rules (no direct commits to main)
🔹 Enforce Code Reviews & Approvals
🔹 Sign Commits (GPG Signing) to prevent tampering

git config --global commit.gpgsign true

🔹 Enable GitHub Dependabot to detect vulnerabilities


🔹 Secret Scanning with GitHub’s Secret Scanning or Gitleaks

🔹 Step 2: CI Pipeline Setup in Jenkins / GitHub Actions

Example: Secure CI Pipeline using Jenkins

pipeline {

agent any

environment {

SONARQUBE_URL = 'http://sonarqube:9000'

DOCKER_REGISTRY = 'jfrog.io/myrepo'
}

stages {

stage('Checkout Code') {

steps {

git branch: 'main', url: '[email protected]:myrepo.git'

stage('Static Code Analysis - SonarQube') {

steps {

script {

sh 'sonar-scanner -Dsonar.projectKey=myapp'

stage('Dependency Scanning - SCA') {

steps {

sh 'dependency-check.sh --project myapp'

stage('Build & Test') {

steps {

sh 'mvn clean package'

sh 'mvn test'

stage('Container Image Build & Scan') {

steps {

sh 'docker build -t myapp:latest .'

sh 'trivy image --exit-code 1 myapp:latest'

stage('Push to JFrog Artifactory') {

steps {
sh 'docker tag myapp:latest $DOCKER_REGISTRY/myapp:latest'

sh 'docker push $DOCKER_REGISTRY/myapp:latest'

✅ Security Checks in CI:


✔ SAST (Static Application Security Testing) → SonarQube
✔ SCA (Software Composition Analysis) → OWASP Dependency-Check, Snyk
✔ Container Image Scanning → Trivy / Aqua Security

🔹 Step 3: Secure Secrets Management 🔑

Use Vault or AWS Secrets Manager

 Avoid hardcoding credentials in Jenkinsfiles or Dockerfiles

 Use HashiCorp Vault or AWS Secrets Manager

Example: Fetching secrets securely from AWS Secrets Manager

env:

- name: DB_PASSWORD

valueFrom:

secretKeyRef:

name: db-secret

key: password

🔹 Step 4: Secure Container Image Storage (JFrog Artifactory / Nexus)

🔹 Store container images in JFrog Artifactory or Nexus


🔹 Enforce image signing using cosign
🔹 Scan images for vulnerabilities using Trivy/Aqua Security

trivy image jfrog.io/myrepo/myapp:latest

🔹 Step 5: Secure CD Deployment (Kubernetes + Helm + GitOps)

🔹 Use Helm Charts or Kustomize to deploy applications


🔹 Deploy applications using ArgoCD / FluxCD (GitOps)
🔹 Enforce RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) in Kubernetes

Example: Secure Deployment YAML in Kubernetes

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment

metadata:

name: myapp

spec:

replicas: 3

template:

spec:

securityContext:

runAsUser: 1000

runAsNonRoot: true

containers:

- name: myapp

image: jfrog.io/myrepo/myapp:latest

securityContext:

readOnlyRootFilesystem: true

capabilities:

drop: [ "ALL" ]

✅ Security in CD:
✔ RBAC & Least Privilege for pods
✔ Network Policies to restrict pod communication
✔ mTLS using Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd)

🔹 Step 6: Kubernetes Security & Runtime Protection

✅ Use Runtime Security Monitoring with Falco

helm install falco falcosecurity/falco

✅ Use Open Policy Agent (OPA) for Policy Enforcement


✅ Monitor Logs with ELK / Prometheus + Grafana

🔹 CI/CD Security Checklist ✅

✅ SCM Security → Private repo, Branch protections, Signed commits


✅ SAST & SCA Scanning → SonarQube, OWASP Dependency-Check
✅ Container Image Security → Trivy, Aqua Security
✅ Secrets Management → Vault, AWS Secrets Manager
✅ Artifact Security → Signed images in JFrog/Nexus
✅ Deployment Security → RBAC, Network Policies, Service Mesh
✅ Runtime Protection → Falco, ELK Monitoring
🔹 Final Thoughts 💡

This end-to-end secure CI/CD pipeline ensures that your application is built, tested, and
deployed securely while preventing vulnerabilities. Would you like a specific implementation
for AWS/GCP/Azure pipelines? 😊

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