Overview

The Mend Bolt extension enables you to do the following:

• Detect and remediate vulnerable open source components

• Generate a comprehensive open-source inventory report per build

• Enforce open source license compliance, including dependencies’ licenses

NOTE: Mend only stores and generates a report for the latest build data of a particular pipeline definition.

Support for Languages and Package Managers 

Mend Bolt supports languages and package managers that are supported today by the Unified Agent (over 200 languages).

Note the following limitations:

• Docker image scanning is not supported.

Prerequisites

Ensure the following:

• Your Azure DevOps organization is connected to an Azure Active Directory via Organization Settings > Azure Active Directory.

• You do not have any existing Mend extensions installed. If so, these must be uninstalled.

• An activation key is required for adding this extension to more than one Azure DevOps organization. You can obtain this activation key from the Integrate page within your Mend Essentials trial. This also means that once the Essentials trial is over, you will no longer be able to install Bolt on additional Azure DevOps organizations.

• If you are using a self-hosted build agent, note that running it behind a web proxy is not currently supported.

• The relevant package manager used by your project is installed.

Installing the Extension

To install the extension, do as follows:

1. Click here to access the Visual Studio Marketplace. The Mend Bolt extension page is displayed.

2. Click Get it free and follow the installation procedure.

Activating the Extension

To activate the extension, do as follows:

1. After installing the extension, navigate to Organization Settings > Extensions > Mend within your Azure DevOps organization.

2. An activation form enabling you to create your Mend account is displayed. Enter the following details:

   • First name

   • Last name

   • Work email

   • Company name

   • Phone Number (optional)

   • Country

3. Click Create Account.

Adding a Mend Bolt Build Task to Your Pipeline

To add a Mend Bolt build task to your existing pipeline, do as follows:

1. Go to the relevant Azure DevOps project for which you want Mend Bolt to run.

2. Inside your Azure DevOps project, from the sidebar, click Pipelines. The Pipelines page is displayed.

3. Click the relevant pipeline. The specific pipeline page is displayed.

4. Click Edit. Do one of the following procedures:

   • Adding a Build Task to a YAML Pipeline

   • Adding a Build Task to a Classic Pipeline

This activates the Mend integration on your build pipeline.

NOTE: Adding a pre-step build task is not necessary in order for Mend to successfully scan the build repository. Mend by default runs a pre-step command as part of the Mend Bolt task.

Adding a Build Task to a YAML Pipeline

1. In the pipeline edit page, from the right side, click Show assistant. The Tasks sidebar is displayed.

2. In the search bar, enter Mend. The Mend task is displayed.

3. Click the Mend Bolt task.

4. From the bottom right corner, click Add. The Mend Bolt task is added to the pipeline.

   - task: Mend@21 inputs: cwd: '$(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)'

5. (Optional) To specify the name of the Mend project to be created in Mend Essentials, add the following to the Mend task. In the following example, replace New_Project_Name with the name you want to give your Mend project:
   NOTE: You cannot change the project name after the first build run.

   - task: Mend@21 inputs: cwd: '$(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)' projectName: 'New_Project_Name'

6. Click Save & queue.

NOTE: The Mend task can be moved to other locations within the steps section, depending on your preferences.

Adding a Build Task to a Classic Pipeline

1. To add a task to the Agent Job, click the plus (“+”) sign next to the agent job section. The Add Tasks section is displayed.

2. In the search bar, enter Mend. The Mend Bolt task is displayed.

3. Click the Mend Bolt tab, and then click Add. The Mend Bolt task is added to the pipeline.

4. (Optional) To specify the name of the Mend project to be created, enter the name in the Project name field.
   NOTE: You cannot change the project name after the first build run.

5. Click Save & queue.

NOTE: The Mend task can be moved to other locations within the steps section, depending on your preferences.

Viewing the Mend Bolt Report

The Mend Bolt report is available on a pipeline build level and it comprises 3 tabs: Inventory, Security Vulnerabilities, and License Risks. You can view the Mend report at a build or project level (aggregated report of all your builds).

Viewing the Report

To view the report, do as follows:

1. Ensure that you followed the procedures in Activating the Extension and Adding a Mend Bolt Build Task to Your Pipeline.

2. Go to the specific build’s results page for your project, and click the Mend Bolt tab. The Mend open source risk report is displayed.

Understanding the Report

Security Summary

A summary of detected open source vulnerabilities and the libraries that contain them.

Inventory Tab

An inventory of all open source libraries detected.

Security Vulnerabilities

A table listing all security vulnerabilities.

License Risks

The License Risk Table displays a summary of open-source components’ license types and their associated risk including the number of occurrences.

Additionally, the following charts are displayed:

• The License Distribution chart displays the distribution of licenses across the inventory.

• The License Risk Distribution chart breaks down the number of licenses by their risk level. Unknown risk level means the license risk was not analyzed by Mend.