Gates that fail open
When the scanner is down the build goes green, so the guardrail is only as reliable as the least reliable tool behind it.
Connect pipeline policy, container images and Kubernetes posture. Give teams clear release guardrails and the evidence behind each decision.
Use artifact identity to connect the security evidence to the workload.
Review the workload, cloud and identity context available to the investigation.
Keep policy evaluation and accountable exceptions tied to the release.
When the scanner is down the build goes green, so the guardrail is only as reliable as the least reliable tool behind it.
Rules live in a YAML file per pipeline and drift apart, and an override leaves no record of who decided what.
Manifests describe what was approved, not what is running. A tag moves, an image is edited in place, and nobody can say which digest is live.
Platform teams work from the asset-owner lens, the Team Owner Home, scoped to the code and cloud they own. Its question: which commitments are overdue, what is blocked, and what changed since last review?
The ranked stories your team owns, beside your open findings and a remediation funnel.
A briefing composed deterministically from live metrics, not a language model, with scan freshness for the assets you own.
The crown-jewel assets you own that are currently at risk, so a blocked fix on a critical service is never buried.
The same policy can fire at the pull request, the build and admission, because all three read the same chain from commit to workload.
Registry watchers and the cluster sensor bind each running workload to its digest, and the digest to the build and commit that produced it.
Every scanner runs isolated and short-lived, with no platform credentials, and reports through one authenticated, signed path. Everything it emits is handled as untrusted input.
Gate decisions are signed, overrides are audited events, and exceptions carry an owner, an expiry and an approver.
Request a demo with one pipeline, one cluster and the policy you want enforced on both.
Add the CLI to the pipeline, connect the cloud account and run a cluster scan.
Start the admission policy in audit, review the decisions, then promote it with two approvers.
esos ci scan CLI exits 0 on success, 1 on a policy failure and 2 on an API error, so a pipeline can block on a real denial and alert on an outage instead of guessing. See deployment gates.SecurityVault for other roles: CISOs · Security engineers · AppSec · Developers · GRC and audit · SOC and IR. See every role.
Further reading: policy-as-code deployment gates with OPA, Kubernetes admission gates and cluster drift, image-to-workload binding and IaC scanning before apply.
Watch a gate deny on error, an unsigned image refused at admission and a digest traced to its commit.