Integrate Google Artifact Registry

Secure your containerized applications by monitoring Google Artifact Registry for exposed secrets in container images and build artifacts.

Why Monitor Google Artifact Registry?

Google Artifact Registry is the central hub for your containerized applications running on Google Cloud Platform. Container images stored here typically contain service account keys, Cloud SQL credentials, and API tokens that grant access to Google Cloud services, making any secret exposure a direct pathway to compromising your entire GCP infrastructure.

Capabilities

Feature	Support	Details
Historical Scanning	✅ (Supported)	Analyze existing images and their layers
Incremental Scanning	✅ (Supported)	Regular scheduled scanning for new content
Monitored Perimeter	✅ (Supported)	Granular monitoring of your repos
Team Perimeter	⏳ (Coming Soon)	Users must be in the "All-incidents" team to access incidents
Presence Check	❌ (Not Supported)	All occurrences considered present
Source Visibility	❌ (Not Supported)	All sources are considered as private
File Attachments	N/A	Not applicable for container registries

What we scan:

• All container image layers
• Dockerfiles and build configurations
• Environment variables in image metadata

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This integration automatically scans your monitored repositories, downloading artifacts which may incur bandwidth costs. To optimize costs and reduce false positives, carefully select the sources to monitor and use our filepath exclusion feature.

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Plan requirements: Available for GitGuardian Business and Enterprise plans. Try it for free with a 30-day trial - any detected incidents remain accessible after the trial ends.
Detector coverage: To minimize false positives, Generic High Entropy Secret and Generic Password are disabled. All other detectors are enabled.

Setup your Google Artifact Registry integration

Prerequisites:

• Owner or Manager account on your GitGuardian Dashboard
• Google Cloud admin permissions to create Service Accounts in your GCP project

GitGuardian integrates with Google Artifact Registry via a Service Account with read-only access to your repositories.

You can install GitGuardian on multiple Google Artifact Registry instances to monitor your repositories.

1. Make sure you're logged as an administrator in your Google Cloud Console

2. Click Select a project and select the project you want to integrate

3. Open the menu and go to the Project settings

4. Go to the Service Accounts section

5. Click CREATE SERVICE ACCOUNT

6. Type a Service account name and click CREATE AND CONTINUE

7. Select Artifact Registry Reader as a role and click CONTINUE

8. You can skip the 3rd step and click DONE

9. Click the menu next to the new service account and select Manage keys

10. Click the ADD KEY menu and select Create new key

11. Select JSON as a key type and click CREATE This will create your new key and download it locally in a JSON file

12. In the GitGuardian platform, navigate to the Sources integration page

13. Click Install next to Google Artifact Registry in the Container registries section

14. Click Install on the Google Artifact Registry integration page

15. Type your Region (e.g.: us-west2)

16. Paste your Service Account Key in JSON format

17. Click Add

18. Customize your monitored perimeter:

    • Monitor specific Google Artifact Registry repositories (Recommended)
      • No repositories are monitored by default, you will have to select them manually.
      • Newly created repositories will not be monitored by default. You can adjust this setting at any time.
      • Recommended to optimize your bandwidth costs.
    • Monitor the entire Google Artifact Registry instance
      • All repositories are monitored by default with a full historical scan automatically triggered.
      • Newly created repositories will be monitored by default. You can adjust this setting at any time.

    

That's it! Your Google Artifact Registry instance is now installed, and GitGuardian is monitoring all Docker images of your selected repositories for secrets.

Customize your monitored perimeter

To customize the monitored repositories, navigate to your Google Artifact Registry settings.

1. Select/Unselect repositories to include or exclude them from monitoring
2. Confirm by clicking Update monitored perimeter

Automatic repository monitoring

You can enable or disable the automatic addition of newly created repositories to your monitored perimeter by switching the option in your Google Artifact Registry settings.

Uninstall your Google Artifact Registry instance

To uninstall a Google Artifact Registry instance:

1. In the GitGuardian platform, navigate to the Sources integration page
2. Click Edit next to Google Artifact Registry in the Container registries section
3. Click the bin icon next to the Google Artifact Registry instance to uninstall
4. Confirm by clicking Yes, uninstall in the confirmation modal

That's it! Your Google Artifact Registry instance is now uninstalled.

Excluded paths

GitGuardian automatically excludes files from scanning if their paths contain any of these regular expressions:

/__pypackages__/
/\.venv/
/\.tox/
/site-packages/
/venv/
distutils/command/register\.py
python.*/awscli/examples/
python.*/dulwich/(tests|contrib/test_)
python.*/hgext/bugzilla\.py
python.*/mercurial/util\.py
python.*/test/certdata/
python.*/urllib/request\.py
python.*/pygments/lexers/
/cryptography.+/tests/.+(fixtures|test)_.+\.py
/python.+pygpgme.+/tests/
botocore/data/.+/(examples|service)-.+\.json
usr(/local)?/lib/python.+/dist-packages
/libevent.+/info/test/test/
/conda-.+-py.+/info/test/tests.+/test_.+\.py
/python[^/]+/test/
/man/man5/kdc\.conf\.5
erlang.*(inets|ssl).*/examples/
/gems/.*httpclient.*/(test|sample)/
/gems/.*faraday.*/
/vendor/bundle/
/\.gem/
ruby-[^/]+/test/openssl/
/(g|G)o/src/cmd/go/internal/.*_test\.go
/(g|G)o/src/cmd/go/internal/.*/testdata/
/(g|G)o/src/cmd/go/testdata/
/(g|G)o/src/crypto/x509/platform_root_key\.pem
/(G|g)o/src/crypto/(tls|x509)/.*_test\.go
/(g|G)o/src/net/(url|http)/.*_test\.go
src/github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent/.*test.*\.go
google/internal/.*_test\.go
golang.org.*oauth2@.*/.*\.go
/flutter/.*/packages/flutter_tools/test/data/
/flutter/.*/examples/image_list/lib
/\.pub-cache
etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil\.key
perl.*Cwd\.pm
ansible/.*/tests/(integration|unit)/
ansible/.*/test/awx
ansible/collections/ansible_collections/.*/plugins/
/curl/.*/(tests|docs|lib/url\.c)
/doc/wget.+/NEWS
dist/awscli/examples/
usr(/local)?/lib/aws-cli/examples/
/google-cloud-sdk/(lib|platform)/
\.git/modules/third[-_]?party/
\.git/modules/external/
/\.npm/_cacache
/node_modules/
/\.parcel-cache/
/\.yarn/cache/
/\.m2/
/\.ivy2/cache/
/\.mix/
/\.hex/
/composer/cache/
/\.nuget/packages/
/libgpg-error/errorref\.txt
/Homebrew/Library/Taps/
/tcl[^/]+/http-.+\.tm
/tcl[^/]+/[^/]+/http-.+\.tm
usr/share/lua/[^/]+/posix/init\.lua
openssl/openssl-[^/]+/test/recipes/
usr/share/doc/libssl-doc/demos/
boringssl/src/third_party/[^/]+test[^/]+/[^/]+_test\.json

Additional Self-Hosted considerations

For GitGuardian Self-Hosted instances, scan frequency can be configured in the Admin Area:

• Time interval unit: seconds
• Default value: 86400 (1 day)
• Minimum value: 1800 (30 minutes)

Privacy

Country-specific laws and regulations may require you to inform your users that your repositories are being scanned for secrets. Here is a suggestion for a message you may want to use:

As part of our internal information security process, the company scans its repositories for potential secrets leaks using GitGuardian. All data collected will be processed for the purpose of detecting potential leaks. To find out more about how we manage your personal data and to exercise your rights, please refer to our employee/partner privacy notice. Please note that only repositories relating to the company’s activity and business may be monitored and that users shall refrain from sharing personal or sensitive data not relevant to the repository’s purpose.