microsoft / microsoft/security-devops-azdevops
Checkov's SoftFail not documented, working, and ignored by MSDO
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Description
I've got "SoftFail": true in the MSDO config/.gdnconfig for my pipeline/repo,
and this does influence the commandline MSDO generates:
/home/vsts/work/_msdo/packages/nuget/Microsoft.Guardian.CheckovRedist_linux_amd64.3.2.497/tools/dist/checkov --directory /home/vsts/work/1/s/vmss --output sarif --quiet --soft-fail --enable-secret-scan-all-files --output-file-path /home/vsts/work/1/s/.gdn/.r/checkov/001/checkov.sarif
Checkov finds some errors, but returns 0 as instructed by soft fail being enabled.
Tool run time: 11.7852427 seconds
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Checkov completed with exit code 0
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The problem is that MSDO breaks my build anyway, because it's scanning for errors, and seems be be ignoring exit codes?
##[error]BreakException: Guardian detected one or more breaking results.
##[error]MSDO CLI exited with an error exit code: 8
Could MSDO be so kind as to respect the exit codes that I've carefully configured for this tool?
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