Clair is an open source project for the static analysis of vulnerabilities in application containers (currently including appc and docker).1. In regular intervals, Clair ingests vulnerability metadata from a configured set of sources and stores it in the database.2. Clients use the Clair API to index their container images; this creates a list of _features_ present in the image and stores them in the database.3. Clients use the Clair API to query the database for vulnerabilities of a particular image; correlating vulnerabilities and features is done for each request, avoiding the need to rescan images.4. When updates to vulnerability metadata occur, a notification can be sent to alert systems that a change has occurred.Our goal is to enable a more transparent view of the security of container-based infrastructure.Thus, the project was named `Clair` after the French term which translates to *clear*, *bright*, *transparent*.## DocumentationTo learn more about Clair [go to the complete documentation](https://coreos.com/clair/docs/latest/).
