diff --git a/automation/greetings.yml b/automation/greetings.yml
index 18ba13f..4677434 100644
--- a/automation/greetings.yml
+++ b/automation/greetings.yml
@@ -12,5 +12,5 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/first-interaction@v1
       with:
         repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-        issue-message: 'Message that will be displayed on users first issue'
-        pr-message: 'Message that will be displayed on users first pull request'
+        issue-message: "Message that will be displayed on users' first issue"
+        pr-message: "Message that will be displayed on users' first pull request"
diff --git a/code-scanning/anchore.yml b/code-scanning/anchore.yml
index 6f52d5d..4fbc9f0 100644
--- a/code-scanning/anchore.yml
+++ b/code-scanning/anchore.yml
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ jobs:
     permissions:
       contents: read # for actions/checkout to fetch code
       security-events: write # for github/codeql-action/upload-sarif to upload SARIF results
+      actions: read # only required for a private repository by github/codeql-action/upload-sarif to get the Action run status 
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
     - name: Checkout the code
diff --git a/code-scanning/scorecards.yml b/code-scanning/scorecards.yml
index a6bde3a..28fb7f3 100644
--- a/code-scanning/scorecards.yml
+++ b/code-scanning/scorecards.yml
@@ -17,9 +17,11 @@ jobs:
     permissions:
       # Needed to upload the results to code-scanning dashboard.
       security-events: write
+      # Used to receive a badge. (Upcoming feature)
+      id-token: write
       actions: read
       contents: read
-
+    
     steps:
       - name: "Checkout code"
         uses: actions/checkout@a12a3943b4bdde767164f792f33f40b04645d846 # v3.0.0
@@ -27,27 +29,31 @@ jobs:
           persist-credentials: false
 
       - name: "Run analysis"
-        uses: ossf/scorecard-action@c1aec4ac820532bab364f02a81873c555a0ba3a1 # v1.0.4
+        uses: ossf/scorecard-action@5c8bc69dc88b65c66584e07611df79d3579b0377 # v1.1.0
         with:
           results_file: results.sarif
           results_format: sarif
-          # Read-only PAT token. To create it,
-          # follow the steps in https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action#pat-token-creation.
-          repo_token: ${{ secrets.SCORECARD_READ_TOKEN }}
-          # Publish the results to enable scorecard badges. For more details, see
-          # https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action#publishing-results.
-          # For private repositories, `publish_results` will automatically be set to `false`,
-          # regardless of the value entered here.
+          # (Optional) Read-only PAT token. Uncomment the `repo_token` line below if:
+          # - you want to enable the Branch-Protection check on a *public* repository, or
+          # - you are installing Scorecards on a *private* repository
+          # To create the PAT, follow the steps in https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action#authentication-with-pat.
+          # repo_token: ${{ secrets.SCORECARD_READ_TOKEN }}
+
+          # Publish the results for public repositories to enable scorecard badges. For more details, see
+          # https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action#publishing-results. 
+          # For private repositories, `publish_results` will automatically be set to `false`, regardless 
+          # of the value entered here.
           publish_results: true
 
-      # Upload the results as artifacts (optional).
+      # Upload the results as artifacts (optional). Commenting out will disable uploads of run results in SARIF
+      # format to the repository Actions tab.
       - name: "Upload artifact"
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@6673cd052c4cd6fcf4b4e6e60ea986c889389535 # v3.0.0
         with:
           name: SARIF file
           path: results.sarif
           retention-days: 5
-
+      
       # Upload the results to GitHub's code scanning dashboard.
       - name: "Upload to code-scanning"
         uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@5f532563584d71fdef14ee64d17bafb34f751ce5 # v1.0.26
diff --git a/deployments/azure-kubernetes-service-kompose.yml b/deployments/azure-kubernetes-service-kompose.yml
index 0cf23ba..60fe536 100644
--- a/deployments/azure-kubernetes-service-kompose.yml
+++ b/deployments/azure-kubernetes-service-kompose.yml
@@ -31,6 +31,12 @@
 
 name: Build and deploy an app to AKS with Kompose
 
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - $default-branch
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
 env:
   AZURE_CONTAINER_REGISTRY: "your-azure-container-registry"
   CONTAINER_NAME: "your-container-name"
@@ -148,4 +154,4 @@ jobs:
         images: |
           ${{ env.AZURE_CONTAINER_REGISTRY }}.azurecr.io/${{ env.CONTAINER_NAME }}:${{ github.sha }}
         imagepullsecrets: |
-          ${{ env.IMAGE_PULL_SECRET_NAME }}
\ No newline at end of file
+          ${{ env.IMAGE_PULL_SECRET_NAME }}