Self Hosted Trivy Instance Metadata Files

[petere2018]

Description

Hello,

When following the documentation for self hosting Trivy I am following the Populating the Trivy Cache and Java DB adaptions sections. The Populating Trivy Cache section is clear that you end up with a trivy.db file and metadata.json file and you put them both in ${TRIVY_CACHE_DIR}/db/. In the next section is says "For Java DB the process is the same". When I unzipped the javadb.tar.gz file, I also end up with a metadata.json file. I now have two metada.json files and it seems like the instructions say to put them both under the /db/ directory. Am I misinterpreting the instructions? Should the JavaDB files go in a different directory altogether?

Link

https://trivy.dev/latest/docs/advanced/self-hosting/

Suggestions

Expand on what to do with the two metadata.json files. Currently the documentation seems to imply two files with the same name go in the same directory.

[nikpivkin]

Hi @petere2018!

The Java database is located in the java-db directory:

❯ ll ~/Library/Caches/trivy/java-db
total 2454640
-rw-r--r--  1 tososomaru  staff   150B Aug  7 15:26 metadata.json
-rw-r--r--  1 tososomaru  staff   1.2G Aug  7 06:58 trivy-java.db

We should add this information to the documentation — it might have been overlooked during the page reorganization.

[petere2018]

Ah, moving the files there worked. Thank you for the quick response. I will keep an eye out for the doc updates. Thanks!

[DmitriyLewen]

Created #9706