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Is there software that tracks internal dependencies for CI/CD? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Here's a hypothetical scenario at a company: We have 2 repos that builds and deploys code as tools and libraries for other apps at the company. Let's call this lib1 and lib2.

There's a third repo, let's call it app, that is application code that depends on lib1 and lib2.

The hard part right now is keeping track of which version of lib1 and lib2 are packaged for app at any point in time.

I'd like to know at a glance, say 1 month ago, what versions of app is deployed and what version of lib1 and lib2 they were using. Ideally, I'm looking for a software solution that would be agnostic to any CI/CD build system, and doubly ideally, an open source one. Maybe a simple web service you call with some metadata, and it displays it in a nice UI.

Right now, we accomplish this by looking at logs, git commit history, and stick things together. I know I can build a custom solution pretty easily, but I'm looking for something more out-of-the-box.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The metadata you want is called a Software Bill of Materials, and there are a range of tools for generating them. Some generic ones include Trivy and Grype, but you may also find some for your language ecosystem by Googling ' + SBOM'.

One tool you can use to view these versions with a web UI is OWASP Dependency-Track.

All of the tools mentioned and linked above are F/OSS.