Add cosigning and provenance attestation to image builds by averevki · Pull Request #333 · Kuadrant/authorino-operator

averevki · 2026-06-30T17:33:53Z

Summary

Sign all container images (operator, bundle, catalog) with cosign (https://github.com/sigstore/cosign) keyless
signing using the GitHub OIDC identity
Enable SLSA build provenance for Docker Buildx workflows (provenance: true)
New actions are pinned by commit SHA using ratchet (https://github.com/sethvargo/ratchet) format comments, consistent with action pinning being added in Pin github action versions with Ratchet #330

Part of the work on Kuadrant/kuadrant-operator#2038

Context

This improves the Signed-Releases (https://github.com/ossf/scorecard/blob/main/docs/checks.md#signed-releases) check from the OpenSSF Scorecard (https://scorecard.dev/). Merging this should bring this section score from current 0 to 10.

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Image builds cosigning and attestation was verified with the kuadrant-operator image builds (Kuadrant/kuadrant-operator#2073), the successful run of which can be found here, with the images pushed here.

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Security
- Published operator, bundle and catalog images now include build provenance and are signed by their image digest.
- Image builds across branch, main, nightly and tagged-release workflows now have the permissions required to support these publishing updates.

coderabbitai · 2026-06-30T17:34:03Z

Walkthrough

The image workflows enable BuildKit provenance and sign the operator, bundle, and catalog images by build digest. The branch, tag-release, main, and nightly workflows grant permissions to read repository contents and request OIDC tokens.

Changes: Image signing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Grant image workflow permissions `.github/workflows/build-images-branches.yaml`, `.github/workflows/build-images-for-tag-release.yaml`, `.github/workflows/build-images-main.yaml`, `.github/workflows/build-images-nightly.yaml`	The branch, tag-release, main, and nightly workflows grant `contents: read` and `id-token: write` permissions.
Build and sign images `.github/workflows/build-images-base.yaml`	The operator, bundle, and catalog builds enable provenance and use cosign to sign each pushed image by its build output digest.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ImageWorkflow
  participant BuildKit
  participant Registry
  participant cosign
  ImageWorkflow->>BuildKit: Build image with provenance and push
  BuildKit->>Registry: Push image
  BuildKit-->>ImageWorkflow: Provide build output digest
  ImageWorkflow->>cosign: Sign image by digest

Suggested labels: area/tooling

Suggested reviewers: kevfan, guicassolato

Merge Risk: High · up to 94377

As written, the image build workflows will probably fail at the new signing step. The operator image is pushed unsigned and the bundle and catalog images are not built. Add id-token: write to the base workflow's permissions, or to each signing job, before merging.

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Provenance rides in every sail.
The digest hops to cosign’s door,
Three images signed, then bound for more.
I nibble greens and cheer the flow!}

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guicassolato

I see the image manifest now has 4 images with "unknown/unknown" os/arch. Is that expected?

averevki · 2026-07-16T09:55:57Z

It is expected, this is how docker buildx (provenance: true) stores the attestations for each architecture, it embeds it directly into the image.

skopeo inspect docker://quay.io/kuadrant/authorino-operator:builds-cosigning-and-provenance --raw | jq
{
  "schemaVersion": 2,
  "mediaType": "application/vnd.oci.image.index.v1+json",
  "manifests": [
    {
      "mediaType": "application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json",
      "digest": "sha256:48fafa861600bf99a2a8ea37db13246b1f07e4d7f39a6c34e66bd35e955b7ab1",
      "size": 675,
      "platform": {
        "architecture": "amd64",
        "os": "linux"
      }
    },
    ....
    {
      "mediaType": "application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json",
      "digest": "sha256:d765ba4bc27704006d58a8d4803c4a70ec34f07cdd5bc259a45582f280640442",
      "size": 565,
      "annotations": {
        "vnd.docker.reference.digest": "sha256:48fafa861600bf99a2a8ea37db13246b1f07e4d7f39a6c34e66bd35e955b7ab1",
        "vnd.docker.reference.type": "attestation-manifest"
      },
      "platform": {
        "architecture": "unknown",
        "os": "unknown"
      }
    },
    {
      "mediaType": "application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json",
      "digest": "sha256:b87517d08bd4e0e1abd942c51d79bc4a581dd1a4166c46ac21bc4154d50c0428",
      "size": 565,
      "annotations": {
        "vnd.docker.reference.digest": "sha256:93475356d6233d4aefda6b40d1c54218c90803d1bd5779ee32915b6a5861bbab",
        "vnd.docker.reference.type": "attestation-manifest"
      },
      "platform": {
        "architecture": "unknown",
        "os": "unknown"
      }
    },
    {
      "mediaType": "application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json",
      "digest": "sha256:c6e52b009e38c8b0e7ce2327816c0861d71f88d8491fc62893c61b094396ce69",
      "size": 565,
      "annotations": {
        "vnd.docker.reference.digest": "sha256:7ccb60efcc4f72abcaab99a9bf9feb35d8003024ef1f45f75d86edf50e29cf7f",
        "vnd.docker.reference.type": "attestation-manifest"
      },
      "platform": {
        "architecture": "unknown",
        "os": "unknown"
      }
    },
    {
      "mediaType": "application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json",
      "digest": "sha256:63384503fdf70a4f0f8ee1f46592320bca77cf8c5aa7a21f41ca26095da777d1",
      "size": 565,
      "annotations": {
        "vnd.docker.reference.digest": "sha256:c7d538b19d4b1d9765eb5861088ad40d7d76b5dd8d84dd7f69c5a3d364788534",
        "vnd.docker.reference.type": "attestation-manifest"
      },
      "platform": {
        "architecture": "unknown",
        "os": "unknown"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Multi-arch images are built a bit differently in the authorino repo, so in there it uses a dedicated github action to generate the provenance instead, which stores provenance as a separate OCI artifact in the registry.

Both ways achieve the same goal of storing the provenance, question is if we want to have the way the attestations are stored unified between the repos. If yes, it would require changing the process images are build in some projects. Personally, I would prefer attestations to be embedded into the image instead of creating an another artifact, to not trash the image registry.

guicassolato · 2026-07-16T10:05:02Z

Not a fun of the separate artefacts either.

Signed-off-by: averevki <sandyverevkin@gmail.com>

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Major · Grant id-token: write in the base workflow. · build-images-base.yaml:73-74

.github/workflows/build-images-base.yaml:73-74
Major · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Grant id-token: write in the base workflow.

The top-level permissions block sets only contents: read. The base workflow does not grant id-token, so the runner does not issue an OIDC token to its jobs. The caller grants do not change this.

The build job runs cosign sign --yes without a key. Keyless signing needs an OIDC token, so this step fails after the operator image is pushed. build-bundle and build-catalog depend on build, so they are skipped. The images are pushed without signatures, and the run fails. A direct workflow_dispatch run has the same problem.
Suggested fix
 permissions:
   contents: read
+  id-token: write
To limit the grant to the signing work, add id-token: write to the build, build-bundle and build-catalog jobs instead.
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Review comment at @.github/workflows/build-images-base.yaml around lines 73 -
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Update the top-level permissions block to grant id-token: write, or scope that
grant to each job that runs keyless cosign signing; ensure the base workflow
provides the OIDC token for both direct runs and caller-triggered runs.

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Publish final tags only after signing succeeds.

The build pushes the final tag before this step runs. If signing fails before it uploads the signature, the tag remains available with an unsigned image. The bundle and catalog builds have the same ordering. Push a staging tag, sign its digest, and promote the final tag only after signing succeeds. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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- Around line 73-74: Update the top-level permissions block to grant id-token:
write, or scope that grant to each job that runs keyless cosign signing; ensure
the base workflow provides the OIDC token for both direct runs and
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