Approved Registries

✓ Guardrail Dependency Guardrails Stable Security And Compliance

dependencies.approved-registries

Restricts dependency resolution to an approved list of package registries. Catches projects that pull from a public index instead of the organization's registry, including projects that never configured a registry at all.

package registry approved registry registry allowlist supply chain security registry provenance

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Compatible Integrations

This guardrail works with the following integrations. Click to see how to use Approved Registries with each collector.

Approved Registries + Go Collector Provides Go module dependency data

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Approved Registries + Package Registries Collector Provides the resolved package registries per ecosystem

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Enable This Guardrail

Add the parent policy to your lunar-config.yml to enable this guardrail.

📄 lunar-config.yml

policies:
  - uses: github://earthly/lunar-lib/policies/dependencies@v1.0.5
    include: [approved-registries]
    # with: ...

How This Guardrail Works

This guardrail is part of the Dependency Guardrails policy. It evaluates data collected by integrations and produces a pass/fail check with actionable feedback.

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↓ Integrations Gather Data

Collectors extract metadata from code, CI pipelines, tool outputs, and scans

{ } Centralized as JSON

All data merged into each component's unified metadata document

✓ This Guardrail Checks Current

Approved Registries runs and provides pass/fail feedback

Configuration Options

These inputs can be configured in your lunar-config.yml to customize how the parent policy (and this guardrail) behaves.

Input	Required	Default	Description
`language`	Required	—	Programming language to check (e.g., "go", "java", "python", "nodejs")
`min_versions`	Optional	`{}`	JSON object mapping dependency paths to minimum safe versions (e.g., {"github.com/example/lib": "1.0.0"})
`include_indirect`	Optional	`false`	Whether to also check indirect (transitive) dependencies
`allowed_registries`	Required	—	Comma-separated list of allowed package registry hosts (e.g. "dl.cloudsmith.io")

Dependency Guardrails

This guardrail is part of the Dependency Guardrails policy, which includes 3 guardrails for security and compliance.

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