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Add cosigning and provenance attestation to image builds - #2073
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) and add actions/attest@v4 provenance attestation for buildah-based tag release workflow
Building workflows with the new changes were executed on my fork of the kuadrant-operator, and the successful run can be found here, with the images pushed here
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New Features
Container images now include provenance details and are signed, helping users verify published builds.
Release builds support signing and provenance publication for operator, bundle, and catalog images.
Security
Image publishing workflows use explicitly scoped permissions to support secure signing and provenance publication.
The image build workflows enable provenance and add Cosign signing for operator, bundle and catalog images. Tag-release jobs also publish provenance attestations. Branch, main and nightly build jobs now declare permissions for content reads and OIDC tokens.
Changes: Image Signing and Provenance
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Summary
OIDC permissions for build workflows .github/workflows/build-images-branches.yaml, .github/workflows/build-images-main.yaml, .github/workflows/build-images-nightly.yaml
Adds contents: read and id-token: write job-level permissions to the build jobs.
Provenance and Cosign signing in base workflow .github/workflows/build-images-base.yaml
Enables provenance for operator, bundle and catalog image builds. Adds Cosign installation and image signing steps that use each build output digest.
Signing and attestation for tag releases .github/workflows/build-images-for-tag-release.yaml
Adds contents: read, id-token: write and attestations: write permissions. When the repository owner is kuadrant, the jobs sign each pushed image by digest and publish its provenance.
sequenceDiagram
participant Build as Tag-release image job
participant Registry as Image registry
participant Cosign
participant Attest as actions/attest
Build->>Registry: Push image
Build->>Cosign: Sign image at pushed digest
Cosign->>Registry: Publish signature
Build->>Attest: Publish provenance for image digest
Attest->>Registry: Publish provenance attestation
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Possibly related PRs
Kuadrant/kuadrant-operator#2057: Pins GitHub Actions in the same image-build workflows. This PR adds signing and attestation actions to those workflows.
Suggested reviewers:eguzki, dlaw4608
Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 3c72c
The workflows add image signing and provenance without an established merge-blocking regression. Publishing release tags only after signing succeeds is optional follow-up; signature cleanup after nightly image expiry remains unverified.
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A rabbit checks the digest with care, Cosign adds a signature there. Provenance records the build, Three image types are now fulfilled. The release workflow sends attestations too, Then hops away beneath the moonlit blue.
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Declare least-privilege permissions inside the reusable workflow jobs.
The callers now pass contents: read and id-token: write, but these signing jobs still omit their own permissions blocks. Add the same minimal scopes to each job that checks out code and signs images so future callers cannot accidentally run this reusable workflow with broader default token permissions.
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In @.github/workflows/build-images-base.yaml around lines 161 - 165, Add
explicit least-privilege permissions to each reusable workflow job that performs
checkout and image signing, instead of relying on caller defaults. Update the
jobs containing the “Install cosign” and “Sign image with cosign” steps to
declare the same minimal scopes, using the job-level permissions block so future
callers cannot inherit broader token access. Apply the same hardening to the
other matching signing jobs referenced by the workflow.
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In @.github/workflows/build-images-base.yaml:
- Around line 161-165: Add explicit least-privilege permissions to each reusable
workflow job that performs checkout and image signing, instead of relying on
caller defaults. Update the jobs containing the “Install cosign” and “Sign image
with cosign” steps to declare the same minimal scopes, using the job-level
permissions block so future callers cannot inherit broader token access. Apply
the same hardening to the other matching signing jobs referenced by the
workflow.
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Publish the release tag only after signing and attestation succeed.
The Push Image step in the build job publishes the release tag before Sign image with cosign and Attest build provenance run. Signing and attestation use the pushed digest, so they cannot run earlier. If either step fails, the job fails after the release tag is already published, without a signature or attestation. No later step removes or quarantines the tag. The build-bundle and build-catalog jobs follow the same order.
The release tag was already unsigned before this change, so this gap is in the new signing coverage. Consumers that expect a signed release can still pull the unsigned tag in this state until the workflow is re-run.
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Review comment at @.github/workflows/build-images-for-tag-release.yaml at line
91:
Update the image publishing flow in the build, build-bundle, and build-catalog
jobs so signing and provenance attestation use the pushed digest before the
release tag becomes available. Separate pushing the image to obtain its digest
from publishing the release tag, and publish or promote that tag only after both
the cosign signing and attestation steps succeed.
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Signing each pushed digest may create registry signature artifacts without the quayImageExpiry applied to nightly images. If Quay does not expire those artifacts with their subjects, recurring operator, bundle, and catalog builds will retain orphaned signatures.
Signature artifacts accumulate in the registry after their signed images are gone, consuming storage and leaving stale registry entries.
This can occur when: Nightly builds pass the supplied quayImageExpiry: 2w, and their image tags subsequently expire.
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Review comments at @.github/workflows/build-images-for-tag-release.yaml:
- Line 91: Update the image publishing flow in the build, build-bundle, and
build-catalog jobs so signing and provenance attestation use the pushed digest
before the release tag becomes available. Separate pushing the image to obtain
its digest from publishing the release tag, and publish or promote that tag only
after both the cosign signing and attestation steps succeed.
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Summary
signing using the GitHub OIDC identity
provenance: true) and addactions/attest@v4provenance attestation for buildah-based tag release workflowPart of the work on #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.
Verification
Building workflows with the new changes were executed on my fork of the kuadrant-operator, and the successful run can be found here, with the images pushed here
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