Copy file from dockerfile build to host - bandit - docker

Question

I just started learning docker. To teach myself, I managed to containerize bandit (a python code scanner) but I'm not able to see the output of the scan before the container destroys itself. How can I copy the output file from inside the container to the host, or otherwise save it?
Right now i'm just using bandit to scan itself basically :)
Dockerfile
FROM python:3-alpine
WORKDIR /
RUN pip install bandit
RUN apk update && apk upgrade
RUN apk add git
RUN git clone https://github.com/PyCQA/bandit.git ./code-to-scan
CMD [ "python -m bandit -r ./code-to-scan -o bandit.txt" ]

Answer 1

You can mount a volume on you host where you can share the output of bandit.
For example, you can run your container with:
docker run -v $(pwd)/output:/tmp/output -t your_awesome_container:latest
And you in your dockerfile:
...
CMD [ "python -m bandit -r ./code-to-scan -o /tmp/bandit.txt" ]
This way the bandit.txt file will be found in the output folder.

Answer 2

Better place the code in your image not in the root directory.
I did some adjustments to your Dockerfile.
FROM python:3-alpine
WORKDIR /usr/myapp
RUN pip install bandit
RUN apk update && apk upgrade
RUN apk add git
RUN git clone https://github.com/PyCQA/bandit.git .
CMD [ "bandit","-r",".","-o","bandit.txt" ]`
This clones git in your WORKDIR.
Note the CMD, it is an array, so just devide all commands and args as in the Dockerfile about.
I put the the Dockerfile in my D:\test directory (Windows).
docker build -t test .
docker run -v D:/test/:/usr/myapp test
It will generate you bandit.txt in the test folder.
After the code is execute the container exits, as there are nothing else to do.
you can also put --rm to remove the container once it finishs.
docker run --rm -v D:/test/:/usr/myapp test