Dependency-Track is an intelligent Component Analysis platform that allows organizations to
identify and reduce risk in the software supply chain. Dependency-Track takes a unique
and highly beneficial approach by leveraging the capabilities of Software Bill of Materials (SBOM). This approach
provides capabilities that traditional Software Composition Analysis (SCA) solutions cannot achieve.
Dependency-Track monitors component usage across all versions of every application in its portfolio in order to
proactively identify risk across an organization. The platform has an API-first design and is ideal for use in
CI/CD environments.
Ecosystem Overview
Features
Consumes and produces CycloneDX Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
Maintain a private vulnerability database of vulnerability components
Robust policy engine with support for global and per-project policies
Security risk and compliance
License risk and compliance
Operational risk and compliance
Ecosystem agnostic with built-in repository support for:
Cargo (Rust)
Composer (PHP)
Gems (Ruby)
Hex (Erlang/Elixir)
Maven (Java)
NPM (Javascript)
CPAN (Perl)
NuGet (.NET)
PyPI (Python)
More coming soon.
Identifies APIs and external service components including:
Service provider
Endpoint URIs
Data classification
Directional flow of data
Trust boundary traversal
Authentication requirements
Includes a comprehensive auditing workflow for triaging results
Configurable notifications supporting Slack, Microsoft Teams, Mattermost, Webhooks, Webex, Email and Jira
Supports standardized SPDX license ID’s and tracks license use by component
Easy to read metrics for components, projects, and portfolio
Native support for Kenna Security, Fortify SSC, ThreadFix, and DefectDojo
API-first design facilitates easy integration with other systems
API documentation available in OpenAPI format
OAuth 2.0 + OpenID Connect (OIDC) support for single sign-on (authN/authZ)
Supports internally managed users, Active Directory/LDAP, and API Keys
Simple to install and configure. Get up and running in just a few minutes
Quickstart (Docker Compose)
# Downloads the latest Docker Compose file
curl -LO https://dependencytrack.org/docker-compose.yml
# Starts the stack using Docker Compose
docker-compose up -d
Quickstart (Docker Swarm)
# Downloads the latest Docker Compose file
curl -LO https://dependencytrack.org/docker-compose.yml
# Initializes Docker Swarm (if not previously initialized)
docker swarm init
# Starts the stack using Docker Swarm
docker stack deploy -c docker-compose.yml dtrack
Quickstart (Manual Execution)
# Pull the image from the Docker Hub OWASP repo
docker pull dependencytrack/bundled
# Creates a dedicated volume where data can be stored outside the container
docker volume create --name dependency-track
# Run the bundled container with 8GB RAM on port 8080
docker run -d -m 8192m -p 8080:8080 --name dependency-track -v dependency-track:/data dependencytrack/bundled
NOTICE: Always use official binary releases in production.
Distributions
Dependency-Track has three distribution variants. They are:
Package
Package Format
Recommended
Supported
Docker
Download
API Server
Executable WAR
✅
✅
✅
✅
Frontend
Single Page Application
✅
✅
✅
✅
Bundled
Executable WAR
❌
☑️
✅
✅
API Server
The API Server contains an embedded Jetty server and all server-side functionality, but excludes the frontend user
interface. This variant is new as of Dependency-Track v4.0.
Frontend
The Frontend is the user interface that is accessible in a web browser. The Frontend is a Single Page Application (SPA)
that can be deployed independently of the Dependency-Track API Server. This variant is new as of Dependency-Track v3.8.
Bundled
The Bundled variant combines the API Server and the Frontend user interface. This variant was previously referred to as
the executable war and was the preferred distribution from Dependency-Track v3.0 - v3.8. This variant is supported but
deprecated and will be discontinued in a future release.
Traditional
The Traditional variant combines the API Server and the Frontend user interface and must be deployed to a Servlet
container. This variant is not supported, deprecated, and will be discontinued in a future release.
Dependency-Track is an intelligent Component Analysis platform that allows organizations to identify and reduce risk in the software supply chain. Dependency-Track takes a unique and highly beneficial approach by leveraging the capabilities of Software Bill of Materials (SBOM). This approach provides capabilities that traditional Software Composition Analysis (SCA) solutions cannot achieve.
Dependency-Track monitors component usage across all versions of every application in its portfolio in order to proactively identify risk across an organization. The platform has an API-first design and is ideal for use in CI/CD environments.
Ecosystem Overview
Features
Quickstart (Docker Compose)
Quickstart (Docker Swarm)
Quickstart (Manual Execution)
NOTICE: Always use official binary releases in production.
Distributions
Dependency-Track has three distribution variants. They are:
API Server
The API Server contains an embedded Jetty server and all server-side functionality, but excludes the frontend user interface. This variant is new as of Dependency-Track v4.0.
Frontend
The Frontend is the user interface that is accessible in a web browser. The Frontend is a Single Page Application (SPA) that can be deployed independently of the Dependency-Track API Server. This variant is new as of Dependency-Track v3.8.
Bundled
The Bundled variant combines the API Server and the Frontend user interface. This variant was previously referred to as the executable war and was the preferred distribution from Dependency-Track v3.0 - v3.8. This variant is supported but deprecated and will be discontinued in a future release.
Traditional
The Traditional variant combines the API Server and the Frontend user interface and must be deployed to a Servlet container. This variant is not supported, deprecated, and will be discontinued in a future release.
Deploying on Kubernetes with Helm
Refer to https://github.com/DependencyTrack/helm-charts.
Contributing
Interested in contributing to Dependency-Track? Please check
CONTRIBUTING.mdto see how you can help!Resources
Community
Copyright & License
Dependency-Track is Copyright (c) OWASP Foundation. All Rights Reserved.
Permission to modify and redistribute is granted under the terms of the Apache License 2.0.
Dependency-Track makes use of several other open source libraries. Please see the notices file for more information.