DAST
Which deployment method is right for me?
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Last updated: June 24, 2025
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Read time: 1 Minute
To help you decide which deployment method is right for you, you can read a summary of the benefits for each below.
Standard
- Suitable for physical or virtual Windows or Linux machines, including cloud VMs and headless servers.
- Scalable to suit your scanning requirements, on single-machine or multi-machine architectures.
- Integrate Burp Scanner with any CI/CD platform that supports Docker containers.
- Fully featured, including a dashboard to monitor your security posture and vulnerability trends over time.
Kubernetes
- Suitable if you already manage Kubernetes infrastructure, applications deployed using Helm charts, and have internal Kubernetes administrator resources.
- Auto-scaling, ideal if your scan frequency varies.
- Integrate Burp Scanner with any CI/CD platform that supports Docker containers.
- Fully featured, including a dashboard to monitor your security posture and vulnerability trends over time.
CI-driven scans with no dashboard
- The easiest way to run scans in your CI/CD environment, if you don't need to use Burp Suite DAST's dashboard features.
- Perform full-power Burp Suite DAST scans in any CI/CD environment - without installing any additional components.
- Give development teams fast feedback, by making scan results available within the CI/CD environment, in JUnit XML format.