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Sonatype + GitHub | Better together

The GitHub experience enhanced by the world’s best software supply chain security

Upgrade Recommendations

Smarter recommendations to accelerate development beyond Dependabot alone.

Flexible Supply Chain Security

Let teams work where and how they want with world-class DevOps and supply chain security.

Holistic Reporting

View risks across all projects through holistic reporting features.

EASY INTEGRATION

Get the best of Sonatype data and features in your GitHub instance.

Why pair Sonatype with GitHub?

GitHub is great for DevOps, but Sonatype is the world’s best software supply chain security solution for developers. With enterprise-class security, prioritized findings, superior data, policy customization, license compliance, and automation, Sonatype does it all and works seamlessly with the DevOps tools you already have in place.

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REDEFINE DEVELOPER EFFICIENCY

Add Sonatype to your GitHub experience and build better apps with automation and prioritization, increase developer velocity, and manage risk across your SDLC.
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MAXIMIZE ROI

Sonatype’s integration into your Codespaces IDE provides application-specific component guidance during the development process
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SECURE YOUR SLDC WITH AI

Artificial Intelligence predicts known and unknown malware days before any public advisory, protecting your software supply chain from zero-day attacks.

The GitHub experience + the world's best software supply chain security

Malware Firewall

Defend your DevOps infrastructure with the world's only enterprise class malicious OSS protection
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Repository

Manage your binary artifacts from your own GitHub builds supporting all formats.

License Obligations

Scan and understand the components in your GitHub repos for Legal and IP leakage risk

Source Control

Seamlessly onboard Source Control repositories with deep GitHub integration
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Build

Scans integrated with builds orchestrated and executed by GitHub
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Developers

Pull Request automation to accelerate dependency management
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Operate

Integrated into your DevOps and Release processes to ensure released software is secure via automation including GitHub Actions
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No one knows open source like Sonatype

655,469

malicious packages identified to date

99.9%

more than our nearest competitor

56 Million

vulnerabilities in our proprietary open source intelligence

280X

the size of GitHub advisories

Better together: Sonatype + GitHub synergies

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Automate dependency management

Sonatype GitHub integration allows you to open up pull requests in GitHub to self-heal your dependency version selection
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Simplify Pull Requests

Developer integration enables you to see only actionable and reachable items in a Pull Request driven by Sonatype prioritization engine
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Empower developers

Sonatype GiHub Actions automates the software deployment workflow, freeing developers from manual infrastructure tasks. Happy developers = productive code!
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Get trustworthy upgrade recommendations

Upgrade recommendations in automated pull requests that are smarter than just the `latest version` designed to accelerate development beyond Dependabot alone.
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Enhance your GitHub with Sonatype Integrations

Sonatype integrations enable you to import user permissions, onboard applications, configure prioritization rules, and get transparent updates for automated actions within SCM for tracking.

New GitHub Actions for streamlined CI/CD

Take advantage of powerful automation and ensure your CI/CD pipeline has the same version control as your application code.

  • Evaluate Action: Simplify code quality and security assessments. 
  • Fetch SBOM: Generate detailed Software Bill of Materials.
  • Setup Sonatype CLI: Easily configure the Sonatype Command Line Interface.
  • Run Sonatype CLI: Execute commands with precision.
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Defend your DevOps infrastructure with the world's only enterprise-class malicious OSS protection

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Reduce open source risk

  • Centralize your consumption of open source to gain insight into the risk in your software supply chain
  • Integrated into your DevOps and Release processes to ensure released software is secure via automation including GitHub Actions
  • Manage your binary artifacts from your own GitHub builds supporting all formats
  • Proxy open source components to speed up developer and GitHub builds. 

Gain open source insights

  • Scans are integrated with builds orchestrated and executed by GitHub
  • Seamlessly onboard Source Control repositories with deep GitHub integration
  • Scan and understand the components in your GitHub repos for Legal and IP leakage risk
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Pull Request automation for fast dependency management

Find and fix vulnerabilities in seconds using GitHub PR reviews

Once you're ready to merge a pull request, simply run a policy evaluation on the branch you’re working on. We'll automatically leave comments on the PR for new vulnerabilities and include an upgrade path or available remediation.

Sonatype is the only enterprise-class solution that integrates
into the GitHub workflow.

Features

GitHub + Sonatype
Malicious OSS protection The only enterprise malicious OSS protection
OSS security data Worlds deepest, broadest, and most accurate OSS data set
Central policy engine Policy engine with robust rules set alongside application and stage context to determine notification and enforcement
Source control Enterprise-class source control based on git
Legal license risk reduction and compliance Open Source component legal review is less than 10 minutes
Binary artifact repository Strong repository offering with light integration at the Repo level
Source control / Repository metadata integration Source Control metadata storage, SBOMs can be stored in Sonatype Nexus Repository
Single sign-on integration Supported in Sonatype SaaS offering
OSS reporting and management Real-time visibility to OSS usage throughout your application landscape
IDE plugins Full and robust IDE integration with plugins
DevOps automation via GitHub actions Fully supported GitHub Actions integration
Dependency management automation Smart suggestions and actions with Pull Request automation based on world's best data
AI/LLM developer copilot Submitted for the pilot program partnership

GitHub + Sonatype

Features
Malicious OSS protection The only enterprise malicious OSS protection
OSS security data Worlds deepest, broadest, and most accurate OSS data set
Central policy engine Policy engine with robust rules set alongside application and stage context to determine notification and enforcement
Source control Enterprise-class source control based on git
Legal license risk reduction and compliance Open Source component legal review is less than 10 minutes
Binary artifact repository Strong repository offering with light integration at the Repo level
Source control / Repository metadata integration Source Control metadata storage, SBOMs can be stored in Sonatype Nexus Repository
Single sign-on integration Supported in Sonatype SaaS offering
OSS reporting and management Real-time visibility to OSS usage throughout your application landscape
IDE plugins Full and robust IDE integration with plugins
DevOps automation via GitHub actions Fully supported GitHub Actions integration
Dependency management automation Smart suggestions and actions with Pull Request automation based on world's best data
AI/LLM developer copilot Submitted for the pilot program partnership
“We’ve consolidated the tools we use across our extensive team, and today everyone is centralized on GitHub. Of course, Sonatype Nexus Repository plays a crucial role in managing and storing the output of automated build and deployment processes throughout the company”
Eugene Ryzhikov
Master Architect, NextEra Energy
Next Era Energy

Resources

Sonatype Nexus GitHub community

Community projects for the Sonatype Nexus Repository

Sonatype GitHub configuration

Creating an Access Token in GitHub

Sonatype GitHub repository

Open source projects for software supply chain security