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PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-SECURITY-ENGINEER · Question #370

Your company is deploying a large number of containerized applications to GKE. The existing CI/CD pipeline uses Cloud Build to construct container images, transfers the images to Artifact Registry…

The correct answer is A. Configure a policy in Binary Authorization to use Artifact Analysis vulnerability scanning to only. Binary Authorization enforces deployment policies in GKE to ensure that only trusted and verified container images are deployed. By integrating Artifact Analysis vulnerability scanning with Binary Authorization, you can automatically validate images against corporate security…

Submitted by olafpl· Apr 18, 2026Ensuring compliance

Question

Your company is deploying a large number of containerized applications to GKE. The existing CI/CD pipeline uses Cloud Build to construct container images, transfers the images to Artifact Registry, and then deploys the images to GKE. You need to ensure that only images that have passed vulnerability scanning and meet specific corporate policies are allowed to be deployed. The process needs to be automated and integrated into the existing CI/CD pipeline. What should you do?

Options

  • AConfigure a policy in Binary Authorization to use Artifact Analysis vulnerability scanning to only
  • BEnable Artifact Analysis vulnerability scanning and regularly scan images in Artifact Registry.
  • CImplement a custom script in the Cloud Build pipeline that uses a third-party vulnerability scanning
  • DConfigure GKE to use only images from a specific, trusted Artifact Registry repository. Manually

How the community answered

(63 responses)
  • A
    71% (45)
  • B
    14% (9)
  • C
    10% (6)
  • D
    5% (3)

Explanation

Binary Authorization enforces deployment policies in GKE to ensure that only trusted and verified container images are deployed. By integrating Artifact Analysis vulnerability scanning with Binary Authorization, you can automatically validate images against corporate security policies and vulnerability thresholds before deployment, ensuring secure, policy-compliant automation within the existing CI/CD pipeline.

Topics

#Binary Authorization#Container Security#Vulnerability Scanning#Deployment Policy

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