When comparing Cake vs Snyk, the Slant community recommends Snyk for most people. In the question“What are the best DevOps tools?” Snyk is ranked 15th while Cake is ranked 17th. The most important reason people chose Snyk is:
Snyk can connect directly to GitHub, GitLab, Heroku, AWS Lambda, Bitbucket Server etc. It is also possible to use the [CLI](https://snyk.io/docs/getting-started-with-our-cli/).
Specs
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Pros
Pro Tools support
Standard support for MSBuild, MSTest, xUnit, NUnit, NuGet, ILMerge, WiX and SignTool.
Pro Cross platform
Windows, Linux and macOS versions available.
Pro Integrations
Snyk can connect directly to GitHub, GitLab, Heroku, AWS Lambda, Bitbucket Server etc. It is also possible to use the CLI.
Pro TeamCity plugin
TeamCity plugin available.
Pro Multi language support
Snyk supports .NET, GO, Java. Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scala.
Cons
Con No GUI
Everything is script based, there is no graphical front end.
Con Shallow .NET support
Only seems to check the NuGet packages and not much else.
Con ASP.NET Core is "High risk"
The TeamCity plugin fails the build for all ASP.NET Core applications stating that it is vulnerable to DOS attacks and that "there is no fix available".