Creating a scanner

navigate to settings > scanners and then click on the add scanner button in the upper right give the scanner a unique name download the scanner configuration keep it in a safe place because it contains the credentials used to access trufflehog and your data! for security and convenience, we recommend storing it in a secrets manager and using the built in schemas for loading it download the scanner download the appropriate binary for your operating system and architecture it will automatically run the latest version from your instance, don't worry about updating it! alternatively, run the docker image we publish with docker run net=host v $(pwd)/config yaml /tmp/config yaml it rm us docker pkg dev/thog artifacts/public/scanner\ latest scan config=/tmp/config yaml