To use the feature of container image scan, you must purchase and enable this feature. This topic describes how to purchase and enable container image scan.
Background information
Container image scan is a value-added feature of Security Center and must be separately purchased. Only users of the Advanced, Enterprise, Ultimate, and Value-added Plan editions can purchase container image scan.
If you purchase container image scan, you are charged based on the quota specified by Container Image Scan. For more information about billing details, visit the Security Center buy page.
Users of the Basic edition can upgrade Security Center to the Advanced, Enterprise, Ultimate, or Value-added Plan edition to purchase container image scan. Users of the Anti-virus edition can upgrade Security Center to the Advanced, Enterprise, or Ultimate edition to purchase container image scan.
Procedure for users of Security Center Basic
Log on to the Security Center console. In the top navigation bar, select the region of the asset that you want to protect. The following regions are supported: China and Outside China.
In the left-side navigation pane, choose .
On the page that appears, click Immediate purchase.
Click Buy Advanced, Buy Enterprise, or Buy Ultimate Edition.
In addition to all features that the Enterprise edition supports, the Ultimate edition supports Container Asset Overview, threat detection for Kubernetes containers, and threat detection during container runtime. If you have high requirements for container security, we recommend that you click Buy Ultimate Edition. For more information about the features that are supported by each edition, see Functions and features.
After you click Buy Advanced, Buy Enterprise, or Buy Ultimate Edition, configure Container Image Scan and other parameters.
We recommend that you set Container Image Scan to the number of images for which you want to detect container vulnerabilities during the subscription period. Security Center identifies an image based on a unique digest value. If the digest value of an image does not change, the quota specified by Container Image Scan is deducted only by one from the first scan. If the digest value of an image changes and the image is scanned again, the quota specified by Container Image Scan is deducted again. The quota is deducted by one each time the digest value changes. For example, if you want to scan 10 images and the total number of times the digest values of the images change is expected to be 20 within the subscription period, set Container Image Scan to 30. This indicates that the value of Container Image Scan equals the number of images you want to scan plus the number of times the digest values change.
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For more information about the billing details, see Billing overview.
For more information about how to configure the parameters on the buy page, see Purchase Security Center.
NoteIf you want to use only container image scan of Security Center, you can set Edition to Value-added Plan and set Container Image Scan to a suitable value.
Click Buy Now and complete the payment.
Procedure for users of all paid editions
If you use Security Center Anti-virus, you must upgrade Security Center to the Advanced, Enterprise, or Ultimate edition and configure Container Image Scan to enable container image scan. If you use the Advanced, Enterprise, or Ultimate edition of Security Center, you must configure Container Image Scan to enable container image scan. For more information, see Upgrade and downgrade Security Center.