> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://help.aikido.dev/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://help.aikido.dev/container-image-scanning/local-image-scanning/setting-up-kaniko-image-scanning-with-local-scanner.md).

# Kaniko Image Scanning with Local Scanner

When performing image scans using the Aikido Local Scanner, the Docker daemon is used to find the image to perform the scan on. Since [Kaniko](https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko) does not depend on a Docker daemon, an alternative approach is needed. That approach is to create a tarball and perform the scan on that tarball.

You can create a tarball from your image using the `--tar-path` flag in your kaniko build command. Alternatively, you can download a tar version of the image from the repository.

Once the tarball is available, use this command to perform the scan.

```shellscript
aikido-local-scanner image-scan /my-image.tar --image-name my-image-name --apikey AIK-xxx
```


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