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Store dependency scanning SBoMs as reports

Brian Williams requested to merge bwill/use-reports-keyword-for-sboms into master

What does this MR do and why?

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In order for GitLab to ingest SBoM reports, the report artifacts need to be saved using the CycloneDX report keyword. This MR changes the dependency scanning template to store the SBoMs as reports so that they can be ingested by the Rails backend.

How to set up and validate locally

Numbered steps to set up and validate the change are strongly suggested.

This change can be tested on gitlab.com

  1. Go to https://gitlab.com/projects/new#create_from_template

  2. Select NodeJS Express

  3. Choose a project name and namespace

  4. Create a .gitlab-ci.yml file with this content:

    include:
  - remote: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/raw/<LATEST_COMMIT_FROM_THIS_BRANCH>/lib/gitlab/ci/templates/Jobs/Dependency-Scanning.gitlab-ci.yml

Example pipeline: https://gitlab.com/bwill/node/-/pipelines/654154909

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