Set Up a Secure Development Environment for AKS

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Set Up a Secure Development Environment for AKS

In this lab, you are a developer tasked with strengthening the security posture of an application running in an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) environment. You will set up your local development environment in Visual Studio Code with security-focused extensions, including SonarQube for IDE and Aqua Trivy. Once the tools are installed and configured, you will work with a cloned microservices repository to scan for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, resolve issues in Dockerfiles, and remediate insecure coding practices flagged by SonarQube. By the end of the lab, you will have gained practical skills in using development tools to identify, analyze, and fix security issues in both application code and container configurations.

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Lab Info

Level

Intermediate

Last updated

Nov 25, 2025

Duration

15m

Challenge

Install security-focused extensions in Visual Studio Code
- Install the SonarQube for IDE extension
- Install the Trivy Extension
Challenge

Clone the repository
Challenge

Find and fix security issues in application configuration files and source code
- Fix a security issue in a Dockerfile using Trivy
- Find a security issue in a Javascript file using SonarQube

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