clamonacc monitoring of Gitlab CI runner Docker containers

Tom Jordan via clamav-users <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Nov 2025 08:08:23 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.virus.clamav.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,
ClamAV newbie here. I'm looking into setting up a Gitlab CI runner on an 
Ubuntu 24.04 host VM. The Gitlab CI runner configuration is nothing 
unusual, it will be sent jobs by the Gitlab CI server and run the CI 
jobs in Docker containers spun up for each job and destroyed after the 
job has completed. However, in our environment security (against 
malware, viruses from the internet) of the running containers is a big 
concern. We plan to do image scanning of the Docker images for 
vulnerabilities, and regular rebuilding (per pipeline) but we also want 
protection of the containers when they are running.
My question: is it possible to configure a clamonacc on the CI VM host 
to perform on-demand monitoring of the containers filesystems? This 
would be preferable to clamonacc running inside each container. It feels 
like it is a reasonable use-case and that it should be possible, but it 
is not clear to me from the ClamAV online documentation or from general 
internet searches on the problem, whether it is possible/how easy it 
would be to set up.
Any help/advice appreciated.
Thomas

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