Cloud Quick Start
Get started with SafeDep Cloud in under 10 minutes
SafeDep Cloud provides a control and data aggregation service on top of security tools like vet. This guide will help you connect your vet instances to SafeDep Cloud for centralized policy management and reporting.
What You’ll Accomplish
Query by Risks
Find critical vulnerabilities across all your projects
Policy Violations
Monitor and track policy violations from all vet instances
Policy Management
Test and deploy policies across all vet deployments
Malware Analysis
Enhanced threat detection with cloud-powered analysis
Method 1: Quick Onboarding with vet CLI
The easiest way to get started is using the vet cloud quickstart
command:
Install vet
Ensure you have vet installed on your system
Run Quickstart
Execute the quickstart command and follow the prompts
Method 2: Manual Web Onboarding
Create Account
Navigate to platform.safedep.io and sign up
Create Tenant
Complete onboarding and create your tenant, noting the Tenant Domain
Generate API Key
Create an API key for use with vet in your tenant settings
After completing onboarding, you should have:
- Tenant Domain (e.g.,
your-company.safedep.io
) - API Key for authentication
Configure vet with SafeDep Cloud
Skip this section if you used the vet cloud quickstart
command
Authentication Setup
Configure vet to authenticate with your SafeDep Cloud tenant:
You’ll be prompted to enter your API key securely.
Verify Authentication
Confirm that your vet instance can connect to SafeDep Cloud:
Sync Data to SafeDep Cloud
Enable the sync reporting module to send vet findings to SafeDep Cloud:
The example uses package-lock.json
, but vet supports many package manifest formats and code analysis.
GitHub Actions Integration
Configure vet-action to sync with SafeDep Cloud:
Create Secrets
Add these GitHub Action Secrets:
SAFEDEP_CLOUD_API_KEY
SAFEDEP_CLOUD_TENANT_DOMAIN
Update Workflow
Modify your vet-action workflow:
Query Your Data
SafeDep Cloud provides a SQL-like query interface for exploring aggregated data:
Authenticate first: vet cloud login --tenant <your-tenant-domain>
List All Projects
Find Critical Vulnerabilities
Identify Policy Violations
Export Results
Export query results to CSV:
Explore the Schema
View the complete data schema to build custom queries: