Please provide a Windows docker image

[testworksau]

We have a need to scan both Windows and Docker images.

Our process up until now has been to use Python to install the ggshield package in a virtual environment on our build agent, but the Docker container is now gaining favour after being hit by this OpenSSL support deprecation in our Amazon Linux CI AMIs.

We'd like to be able to use a ggshield Docker image too, so that we can have a common approach to scanning, and do not have to maintain our own image.

[agateau-gg]

Just to be make sure I understand correctly: you would like to have a Windows-based Docker image of GGShield? What would it bring compared to the existing Linux-based Docker image?

[testworksau]

Hi @agateau-gg 👋🏼

That's correct. In order to build a Windows docker image, we need to use a Windows host.

Windows instances can run Linux and Windows docker containers, but you need to switch the daemon from Windows to Linux to do so (and this means you need to switch it back again to build another Windows container).

Our build agents for Windows are set up to build and run Windows docker containers, and we don't allow switching of the daemon as there are multiple build agents running on the same host.