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Using OCI Annotation to Track Container Image Lifecycle
For a while, we’ve been exploring the idea of using OCI annotations to track the lifecycle of container images. The problem we are trying to solve is as follows. Container images are immutable and cannot be dynamically patched like virtual machines. To apply the latest updates to a containerized application, teams must produce a new […]
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OCI Artifact Manifests, OCI Referrers API and Their Support Across Registries (Part 1)
[UPDATE: 2023-03-26] When I wrote this post, the expectation was that OCI will release version 1.1 of the specification with artifact manifest included. This release was supposed to happen by end of Jan 2023 or mid Feb 2023. Unfortunately, the OCI 1.1 Image Spec PR 999 put a hold on that and as of today, […]
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Implementing Containers’ Secure Supply Chain with Sigstore Part 3 – Ephemeral Keys and Artifact Promotion
In the last post of the series about Sigstore, I will look at the most exciting part of the implementation – ephemeral keys, or what the Sigstore team calls keyless signing. The post will go over the second and third scenarios I outlined in Implementing Containers’ Secure Supply Chain with Sigstore Part 1 – Signing […]
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Implementing Containers’ Secure Supply Chain with Sigstore Part 2 – The Magic Behind
In my previous post, Implementing Containers’ Secure Supply Chain with Sigstore Part 1 – Signing with Existing Keys, I went over the Cosign experience of signing images with existing keys. As I concluded there, the signing was easy to achieve, with just a few hiccups here and there. It does seem that Cosign does a […]
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Implementing Containers’ Secure Supply Chain with Sigstore Part 1 – Signing with Existing Keys
Today, the secure supply chain for software is on top of mind for every CISO and enterprise leader. After the President’s Executive Order (EO), many efforts were spun off to secure the supply chain. One of the most prominent is, of course, Sigstore. I looked at Sigstore more than a year ago and was excited […]