Add Semgrep to your Semaphore pipeline

This document shows you how to add Semgrep into Semaphore. In Semaphore:

Create a secret with your SEMGREP_APP_TOKEN.

Open the YAML pipeline for your project using the Visual Editor.

Click +Add Block.

Expand Jobs, and add the following commands to perform a full scan:

checkout
pipx install semgrep
semgrep ci

Enable the secret that you created in Step 1. To do this, expand Secret, and select SEMGREP_APP_TOKEN.

Click Run the workflow, provide a Commit summary, and click Looks good, Start to save your changes and run the pipeline job.

Sample Semaphore configuration snippet

Default
Semgrep CE

The following configuration creates a CI job that runs scans using the products and options you have enabled in Semgrep AppSec Platform.

version: v1.0
name: Semaphore Semgrep Example
agent:
  machine:
    type: f1-standard-2
    os_image: ubuntu2204
blocks:
  - name: Semgrep
    task:
      jobs:
        # Job performing a full scan
        - name: Semgrep Full Scan
          commands:
            - checkout
            - pipx install semgrep
            - semgrep ci
        # Job performing a diff scan for PR/branches
        - name: Semgrep Diff-aware Scan
          commands:
            - checkout
            - export SEMGREP_BRANCH=$SEMAPHORE_GIT_BRANCH
            - export SEMGREP_BASELINE_COMMIT=$SEMAPHORE_GIT_SHA
            - pipx install semgrep
            - semgrep ci
      # import a secret named 'semgrep' with the SEMGREP_APP_TOKEN
      secrets:
        - name: SEMGREP_APP_TOKEN

You can run specific product scans by passing an argument, such as --supply-chain. View the list of arguments.

The following configuration creates a CI job that runs Semgrep CE scans using rules configured for your programming language.

version: v1.0
name: Semaphore Semgrep CE Example
agent:
  machine:
    type: f1-standard-2
    os_image: ubuntu2204
blocks:
  - name: Semgrep
    task:
      jobs:
        # Job performing a full scan using Semgrep CE
        - name: Semgrep CE Scan
          commands:
            - checkout
            - pipx install semgrep
            - semgrep scan

You can customize the scan by entering custom rules or other rulesets to scan with. See Scan your codebase with a specific ruleset.

​Sample Semaphore configuration snippet

Sample Semaphore configuration snippet