Introduction to Snyk targets and projects
Targets
Targets represent an external resource Snyk has scanned through an integration, the CLI, UI or API.
Targets may represent a SCM repository, a Kubernetes workload, or other scannable resources external to Snyk. All Projects Snyk creates, are associate to a parent Target. One target may relate to many projects. The structure of the target depends on the origin.
Targets appear on the Projects menu on the Snyk dashboard:
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Origin
The Target ecosystem, such as CLI, GitHub, or Kubernetes.
Possible values are:
- acr
- api
- artifactory-cr
- aws-config
- aws-lamba
- azure-functions
- azure-repos
- bitbucket-cloud
- bitbucket-server
- cli
- cloud-foundry
- digitalocean-cr
- docker-hub
- ecr
- gcr
- github
- github-cr
- github-enterprise
- gitlab
- gitlab-cr
- google-artifact-cr
- harbor-cr
- heroku
- ibm-cloud
- kubernetes
- nexus-cr
- pivotal
- quay-cr
- terraform-cloud
Projects
Projects define the items Snyk scans at a given Target. A project includes:
- A scannable item external to Snyk.
- Configuration to define how to run that scan.
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Targetfile
The specific item to scan in a target, such as a pom file in a GitHub repo.
Type
The scanning method to use for this project, such as static application security testing , SAST for scanning using Snyk Code or Maven for a Maven project using Snyk Open Source). Part of the configuration for scanning.
Introducing the Snyk Dashboard
Use the Dashboard to gain a different perspective on project work that needs to be handled and to get an overview of the most vulnerable projects in your organization.
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