Snyk Setup Action

The Snyk Setup Action provides a way to install the Snyk CLI to check for vulnerabilities. For information about when to use this action, see Use your own development environment on the GitHub Actions Integration page.

You can use the Snyk Setup Action to install Snyk to check for vulnerabilities as follows:

name: Snyk example 
on: push
jobs:
  security:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@master
    - uses: snyk/actions/setup@master
    - uses: actions/setup-go@v1
      with:
        go-version: "1.13"
    - name: Snyk test
      run: snyk test
      env:
        SNYK_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SNYK_TOKEN }}

When using the Setup Action you are responsible for setting up the development environment required to run Snyk. In this case this is a Go project so actions/setup-go was used, but this would be specific to your project. The GitHub language and frameworks guides are a good starting point.

The Snyk Setup Action has a property which is passed to the underlying image using with.

Property	Default	Description
snyk-version	latest	Install a specific version of Snyk

The Action also has output:

Property	Default	Description
version		The full version of the Snyk CLI installed

For example, you can choose to install a specific version of Snyk and grab the installed version from the output:

name: Snyk example
on: push
jobs:
  security:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@master
    - uses: snyk/actions/setup@master
      id: snyk
      with:
        snyk-version: v1.391.0
    - uses: actions/setup-go@v1
      with:
        go-version: "1.13"
    - name: Snyk version
      run: echo "${{ steps.snyk.outputs.version }}"
    - name: Snyk monitor 
      run: snyk monitor
      env:
        SNYK_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SNYK_TOKEN }}