Veracode Sandboxes Helper

An Action to handle Sandboxes mainly as a set of clean-up activities such as:

• Deleting a sandbox
• Delete Multiple Sandboxes
• Promoting Sandbox scan to Policy Scan
  • with or without deleting the sandbox

Inputs

❗ You will need to provide API credentials as environment variables. (See examples below)

activity

Required - The name of the activity to perform

Available options value:

Value	Details
remove-sandbox	Remove/Delete a sandbox
promote-latest-scan	Promote the latest Sandbox scan to a Policy
clean	Delete multiple dated sandboxes based on recent activity

app-name

Required - The Veracode Application Profile name

sandbox-name

Required - The sandbox name

delete-on-promote

Optional - Only works with activity: "promote-latest-scan" activity and give you the option to specify if you want the Sandbox to be deleted after the last scan is promoted to a Policy Scan

Value	Details
"false"	Default - Do not delete the Sandbox
"true"	Delete the Sandbox after promoting the latest scan

clean-amount

Optional - The number of dated sandboxes to delete. The query of sandboxes will target Sandboxes which their modified date is most dated.

Value	Details
1	Default - Delete a single Sandbox
Any number from 1-25	Number of sandboxes to delete

clean-modified-before

Optional - The attribute will instruct the clean step to only look for sandboxes which their modified date is older than the amount of days given as the a value. :exclamation: Only works in conjunction with the clean activity

Value	Details
0	Default - Any sandbox
Any other number - X	Can only delete sandboxes which last modified at least X days ago

Examples

Delete a Sandbox

For deleting a sandbox you can simply add the following step to your workflow job.

on: 
  delete: # a trigger for when a Branch is deleted
    
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  veracode-sandbox-task:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Clean branch Sandbox

    steps:

      ... # your other job steps

      - name: Delete Sandbox
        env:
          VERACODE_API_ID: '${{ secrets.VERACODE_API_ID }}'
          VERACODE_API_SECRET: '${{ secrets.VERACODE_API_SECRET }}'
        uses: veracode/[email protected]
        with:
          activity: "remove-sandbox"
          app-name: "<YOUR VERACODE APPLICATION NAME>"
          # "${{ github.ref }}" - current branch on push triggers
          # or "${{ github.event.pull_request.head.ref }}" - post pull request
          sandbox-name: "<SANDBOX_NAME>" 
      

Delete Multiple Sandboxes

Delete up to two most dated Sandboxes modified at least 14 days ago.

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  
  schedule:
    - cron: 30 14 * * *

jobs:
  veracode-sandbox-maintenance-task:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Pull Request Review Submitted

    steps:

      ... # your other job steps

      - name: Delete old unused Sandboxes
        env:
          VERACODE_API_ID: '${{ secrets.VERACODE_API_ID }}'
          VERACODE_API_SECRET: '${{ secrets.VERACODE_API_SECRET }}'
        uses: veracode/[email protected]
        with:
          activity: "clean"
          app-name: "<YOUR VERACODE APPLICATION NAME>"
          clean-amount: "2"
          clean-modified-before: "14" 
      

Promote Sandbox

For promoting a scan from Sandbox to a Policy you can use the following

on: 
  pull_request_review: # a trigger when a Pull Request Review submitted
    types: [submitted]
        
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  veracode-sandbox-task:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Pull Request Review Submitted

    steps:

      ... # your other job steps

      - name: Promote Scan on Approval
        # run only if the pull request got approved
        if: ${{ github.event.review.state == 'approved' }}
        env:
          VERACODE_API_ID: '${{ secrets.VERACODE_API_ID }}'
          VERACODE_API_SECRET: '${{ secrets.VERACODE_API_SECRET }}'
        uses: veracode/[email protected] 
        with:
          activity: "promote-latest-scan"
          app-name: "<YOUR VERACODE APPLICATION NAME>"
          sandbox-name: "<SANDBOX_NAME>" # "${{ github.event.pull_request.head.ref }}"
          delete-on-promote: true # Optional: also Deleting the Sandbox