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Sonatype + GitHub | Better together

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

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.

Empower developers with security intelligence

We're introducing a powerful new integration with Sonatype Lifecycle and GitHub Code Scanning. Get Sonatype Lifecycle scan results directly in your project's GitHub Code Scanning to simplify security processes and boost code security.

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

778,529

pieces of open source malware detected 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.

Streamline your CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions

Enhance your CI/CD processes by leveraging pre-built actions from the GitHub marketplace to rapidly assemble complex workflows. Plus, take advantage of powerful automation to simplify code quality and security assessments to keep your software supply chain secure. 

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.
  • Enhance code quality at the source with proactive identification and mitigation of security risks with Sonatype’s best-in-class SCA.

Gain open source insights

  • Get Sonatype Lifecycle scan results directly in GitHub to easily incorporate security insights into your workflows
  • 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
  • Accelerate development cycles with integrated security checks that won’t disrupt your existing GitHub practices.
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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 yes The only enterprise malicious OSS protection
OSS security data yes Worlds deepest, broadest, and most accurate OSS data set
Central policy engine yes Policy engine with robust rules set alongside application and stage context to determine notification and enforcement
Source control yes Enterprise-class source control based on git
Legal license risk reduction and compliance yes Open Source component legal review is less than 10 minutes
Binary artifact repository yes Strong repository offering with light integration at the Repo level
Source control / Repository metadata integration yes Source Control metadata storage, SBOMs can be stored in Sonatype Nexus Repository
Single sign-on integration yes Supported in Sonatype SaaS offering
OSS reporting and management yes Real-time visibility to OSS usage throughout your application landscape
IDE plugins yes Full and robust IDE integration with plugins
DevOps automation via GitHub actions yes Fully supported GitHub Actions integration
Dependency management automation yes Smart suggestions and actions with Pull Request automation based on world's best data
AI/LLM developer copilot yes Submitted for the pilot program partnership

GitHub + Sonatype

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