Checkov Infrastructure Policy Scanner

Scans IaC files with Bridgecrew Checkov for policy violations across Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, and Dockerfile configurations. Supports custom Python-based policy authoring and Prisma Cloud integration.

Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:

• To install pip follow the official docs
• pip install checkov
• brew install checkov
• brew upgrade checkov

Requirements and caveats from upstream:

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• Supports Python format for attribute policies and YAML format for both attribute and composite policies.

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

• Getting Started

• Terraform >= 0.12

• sh

• Source: https://github.com/bridgecrewio/checkov

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bridgecrewio/checkov/HEAD/README.md

Source

• Agent Skill Exchange