Installing Trivy

In this section you will find an aggregation of the different ways to install Trivy. installations are listed as either "official" or "community". Official integrations are developed by the core Trivy team and supported by it. Community integrations are integrations developed by the community, and collected here for your convenience. For support or questions about community integrations, please contact the original developers.

Install using Package Manager

RHEL/CentOS (Official)

RepositoryRPM

Add repository setting to /etc/yum.repos.d.

RELEASE_VERSION=$(grep -Po '(?<=VERSION_ID=")[0-9]' /etc/os-release)
cat << EOF | sudo tee -a /etc/yum.repos.d/trivy.repo
[trivy]
name=Trivy repository
baseurl=https://aquasecurity.github.io/trivy-repo/rpm/releases/$RELEASE_VERSION/\$basearch/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1
EOF
sudo yum -y update
sudo yum -y install trivy

rpm -ivh https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy/releases/download/v0.37.3/trivy_0.37.3_Linux-64bit.rpm

Debian/Ubuntu (Official)

RepositoryDEB

Add repository setting to /etc/apt/sources.list.d.

sudo apt-get install wget apt-transport-https gnupg lsb-release
wget -qO - https://aquasecurity.github.io/trivy-repo/deb/public.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/trivy.gpg > /dev/null
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/trivy.gpg] https://aquasecurity.github.io/trivy-repo/deb $(lsb_release -sc) main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/trivy.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install trivy

wget https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy/releases/download/v0.37.3/trivy_0.37.3_Linux-64bit.deb
sudo dpkg -i trivy_0.37.3_Linux-64bit.deb

Homebrew (Official)

Homebrew for MacOS and Linux.

brew install trivy

Arch Linux (Community)

Arch Community Package Manager.

pacman -S trivy

References: - https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/trivy/ - https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/blob/packages/trivy/trunk/PKGBUILD

MacPorts (Community)

MacPorts for MacOS.

sudo port install trivy

References: - https://ports.macports.org/port/trivy/details/

Nix/NixOS (Community)

Nix package manager for Linux and MacOS.

Command line

nix-env --install -A nixpkgs.trivy

Configuration

  # your other config ...
  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
    # your other packages ...
    trivy
  ];

Home Manager

  # your other config ...
  home.packages = with pkgs; [
    # your other packages ...
    trivy
  ];

References: - https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/admin/trivy/default.nix

Install from GitHub Release (Official)

Download Binary

Download the file for your operating system/architecture from GitHub Release assets (curl -LO https://url.to/trivy.tar.gz).
Unpack the downloaded archive (tar -xzf ./trivy.tar.gz).
Put the binary somewhere in your $PATH (e.g mv ./trivy /usr/local/bin/).
Make sure the binary has execution bit turned on (chmod +x ./trivy).

Install Script

The process above can be automated by the following script:

curl -sfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aquasecurity/trivy/main/contrib/install.sh | sh -s -- -b /usr/local/bin v0.37.3

Install from source

git clone --depth 1 --branch v0.37.3 https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy
cd trivy
go install

Use container image

Pull Trivy image (docker pull aquasec/trivy:0.37.3)
It is advisable to mount a consistent cache dir on the host into the Trivy container.
For scanning container images with Trivy, mount docker.sock from the host into the Trivy container.

Example:

docker run -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v $HOME/Library/Caches:/root/.cache/ aquasec/trivy:0.37.3 image python:3.4-alpine

Other Tools to use and deploy Trivy

For additional tools and ways to install and use Trivy in different environments such as in IDE, Kubernetes or CI/CD, see Ecosystem section.