🚀 Welcome to the DevSecOps for Java Series

In this blog series, we’re going to build a real-world, security-first CI/CD pipeline for a Java application, deployed on Azure, using some of the best open-source tools out there.

This isn’t just theory — it’s the exact kind of pipeline used by modern DevOps and platform teams to:

• Detect vulnerabilities early 🛑
• Catch insecure code before it ships 💥
• Secure cloud infrastructure from misconfigurations 🔐
• Automate everything using YAML in Azure DevOps 🧩

🧱 What Are We Building?

We’re building a complete DevSecOps pipeline for a Java app that does:

1. ✅ SCA: Scan your libraries (like those in pom.xml) using Snyk
2. ✅ SAST: Analyze your source code with SonarQube
3. ✅ IaC scanning: Scan Terraform configs using Checkov
4. ✅ Terraform apply: Safely deploy infrastructure on Azure
5. ✅ App deploy: Deploy the Java app to Azure App Service
6. ✅ DAST: Scan your running app with OWASP ZAP

All this happens automatically inside an Azure DevOps pipeline.

🔧 What Tools Are We Using?

Here’s the stack we’ll work with:

You don’t need to be an expert in any of these — we’ll walk through every step clearly and visually.

📘 Who This Is For

This series is perfect for:

• DevOps engineers who want to shift security left
• Java developers learning how security fits into CI/CD
• Cloud engineers working with Terraform and Azure
• Anyone building real pipelines — not toy examples

🧭 What’s Next?

In the next post, we’ll: 👉 Set up Snyk to scan your Java app’s dependencies for known vulnerabilities.

We’ll explain:

• What SCA is
• Why it matters
• And how to plug Snyk into Azure DevOps

Ready to scan your dependencies before hackers do? 😄

⏭️ Continue to Part 2 - Scanning with Snyk →