Hey folks, been deep in the SAST and SCA weeds lately, and I'm at a bit of a crossroads with our toolchain. We've been using Veracode for a good few years now across a pretty complex landscape—microservices, a couple of hefty monorepos (one in Go, one in TypeScript), and the usual Kubernetes deployments. It's been... okay. The security coverage is solid, but the developer experience and integration pace have started to feel a bit heavy, especially with our push towards full GitOps and wanting everything as code in our pipelines.
We're seriously evaluating Snyk for a full shift (SAST, SCA, container, IaC—the whole suite). The developer-first mantra and the CLI/IDE integration look super appealing for our platform engineering goals. But I'm hungry for real-world, gritty details from anyone who's made this specific jump.
* **Monorepo Handling:** Veracode's monorepo scanning always required some custom scripting for us. How does Snyk handle large monorepos in practice? Specifically, for dependency scanning (SCA), does it correctly identify the distinct `package.json` or `go.mod` files per service and avoid cross-polluting false positives? Any config snippets for your `.snyk` policies or pipeline steps here would be golden.
* **False Positive Tuning:** Veracode's policy management is centralized but can be slow to adjust. Snyk's `/.snyk` YAML file per project seems powerful. How effective have you found it at suppressing false positives *and* keeping that configuration manageable across 50+ services? Did you manage it via a shared internal "policy template"?
* **Pipeline Speed & CI Integration:** Our Veracode SAST scans can be a bottleneck. Snyk's incremental/PR-focused scanning looks great on paper. What's the real-world impact on your merge request time? Did you integrate it as a step in your Kubernetes-native CI (Tekton, Argo CD pipelines, etc.)?
* **The Container & Kubernetes Angle:** We're heavily invested in Helm and Kustomize. How well does Snyk's container and Kubernetes config scanning slot into a GitOps flow where the manifests are in git, but the images are built later? Any experience with the Snyk Operator for in-cluster scanning?
I'm about to kick off a thorough POC, but I'd love to hear your war stories—the good, the bad, and the "wish I'd known" bits. Concrete examples or configs always beat high-level praise!
Cheers,
bw
Automate all the things.