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What this PR does

Follow-up to #4997 (merged as d32092a), rebased onto main at that merge: one commit 57db352ed. The second half of what was agreed there: beside the SBOM, each release image gets a SLSA provenance statement from BuildKit, in the same attestation manifest.

Refs #4759, #3278

SBOM=1 in hack/common-envs.mk now passes --attest type=provenance,mode=min with the SBOM attest, in place of --provenance=false; a build without SBOM=1 keeps --provenance=false as before. BuildKit writes both predicates into the one attestation manifest per platform, so the index shape hack/stitch-multiarch.sh and hack/verify-multiarch.sh read after #4997 is unchanged, and a signature over the index covers the provenance as it covers the SBOM. mode=min records the build times, the build platform, the frontend and the BuildKit version and leaves out the build arguments and the secrets, which mode=max would write in, so it can ride every release image. docker buildx imagetools inspect <image>@<digest> --format '{{ json .Provenance }}' prints it; docs/release.md says so.

How it was checked

  • hack/common-envs_test.bats: the SBOM=1 test now also holds that --attest type=provenance,mode=min is passed, that --provenance=false is not, that neither mode=max nor --provenance=true appears, and that the default build still passes --provenance=false and no --attest. make -n of packages/system/cozystack-controller shows exactly that in both modes. hack/stitch-multiarch_test.bats is green: the attestation manifest count per platform does not change.
  • A real build, by myasnikovdaniil on a local registry: amd64 and arm64 built with the flags from common-envs.mk, stitched, verify-multiarch.sh passes, the index has four manifests (two images, two attestation manifests with SBOM and provenance each), .Provenance reads for both platforms, and a --build-arg value is in mode=max and not in mode=min.
  • Rebased on main at d32092a: hack/common-envs_test.bats and hack/stitch-multiarch_test.bats 34/34.
  • Not checked: the provenance predicate on a release runner. The first alpha after the merge shows it.

Decisions for the release owners

  • mode=min rather than mode=max: the Dockerfiles take --build-arg values a reader of a public attestation should not see by default. If a package's arguments are all public, max is one word away.
  • docs/security/self-assessment.md still says build provenance is disabled (--provenance=false). It stays until the first alpha shows provenance on a release image, as feat(release): attach an SBOM to every release image #4997 holds its SBOM row.
  • PR, main and nightly builds stay without provenance, as they stay without an SBOM: nothing reads it there, and the default docker driver cannot attach it.

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I walked the trigger map against the diff. hack/common-envs.mk changes the flags one variable expands to and no target, variable name or file that ccp's skills anchor on; nothing else is touched.

Release note

feat(build): every release image built with `SBOM=1` also carries a SLSA provenance statement (BuildKit `mode=min`: build times, platform, frontend and BuildKit version, no build arguments or secrets) in the same attestation manifest as its SBOM, readable with `docker buildx imagetools inspect <image>@<digest> --format '{{ json .Provenance }}'`.

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  • New Features
    • Container images now include a SLSA provenance attestation alongside the SBOM when SBOM generation is enabled. Provenance is disabled otherwise.
  • Documentation
    • Updated release documentation to describe the provenance statement, its fields, how to inspect it, and that attestations are unsigned.

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When SBOM=1, Buildx now enables a mode=min provenance attestation alongside the SBOM attestation. Otherwise, the build configuration disables provenance. The tests and release documentation describe these settings and the attestation contents.

Changes: Container image attestations

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Configure and describe image attestations
hack/common-envs.mk, hack/common-envs_test.bats, docs/release.md
When SBOM=1, BUILDX_ARGS includes SBOM and mode=min provenance flags. Otherwise, it disables provenance. Tests check these options, and release documentation describes the attestations and how to inspect them.

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  • cozystack/cozystack#4997: Adds the SBOM attestation and image build configuration that this change extends with provenance.
  • cozystack/cozystack#5042: Signs release image indexes and publishes SBOM data; this change adds provenance to the same image attestation manifest.
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Release builds are configured to add provenance alongside the SBOM. No actionable new merge risk is established; the security assessment update is deferred until the first alpha.

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Review comments at @docs/security/self-assessment.md:
- Line 13: Update the SBOM table entry and the “Signed / reproducible builds”
statement to reflect that release BuildKit images carry SPDX SBOM and SLSA
provenance attestations. Preserve the exceptions for images predating SBOM
enablement, the Talos installer, third-party or non-release-BuildKit images, and
retain the note that attestations are unsigned and builds are not yet
reproducible.

Review comments at @hack/stitch-multiarch.sh:
- Around line 245-253: Update the a_members construction in the rerun validation
around a_raw so that, when A is an index, it collects every manifest digest
rather than filtering to Linux descriptors; retain the [$a] fallback for
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Nothing in the provenance change blocks. This branch still has the nightly mirror sentence in docs/release.md:356 and no Renovate manager for SBOM_SCANNER, both from #4997 and both fixed on its head now (7fceb9257), so they go away with the rebase.

The rebase conflicts in docs/release.md (this PR edits the same one-line paragraph) and in the comment block above SBOM in hack/common-envs.mk. Keep this PR's text in both and take from #4997 the shorter "promotion copies it with the image" and the sentence that Renovate bumps the version and the digest together. I did it on a trial merge and the tests pass on the result.

The description lists a real build as not checked, so I ran one on a local registry. amd64 and arm64 built with the flags from common-envs.mk, stitched, verify-multiarch.sh passes, the stitched index has four manifests (two images and two attestation manifests, SBOM and provenance in each) and .Provenance reads for both platforms. With --build-arg set, its value is in the mode=max provenance and not in mode=min.

Follow-ups

  1. docs/security/self-assessment.md:150 still says build provenance is disabled (--provenance=false). Fine to hold it until the first alpha like feat(release): attach an SBOM to every release image #4997 does, but then say so in the description.
  2. You said under feat(release): attach an SBOM to every release image #4997 that both follow-ups stay drafts until it merges, and this one went ready for review on 21 Oct, before it did. Please put it back to draft until the rebase, it can't merge before feat(release): attach an SBOM to every release image #4997 anyway.

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myasnikovdaniil thanks for the review and for running the real build. All of it was done on 26 Oct:

  • Rebased onto feat(release): attach an SBOM to every release image #4997's head 7fceb9257 (commit 0e3b4a4c6). In both conflicts I kept this PR's text, plus feat(release): attach an SBOM to every release image #4997's "promotion copies it with the image" and the sentence that Renovate bumps the version and the digest together. The nightly-mirror sentence and the missing Renovate manager went away with the rebase.
  • Back to draft.
  • The description now says that the provenance line at self-assessment.md:150 waits for the first alpha, and lists your local-registry build under "How it was checked".

hack/common-envs_test.bats and hack/stitch-multiarch_test.bats are 34/34 on this head.

One change since then: #5042 now replaces "The attestations are not signed" in the same paragraph of docs/release.md, because its signature over the index covers both attestations. So #5042 and this PR conflict there. Whichever lands second resolves it, and if #5042 goes first, the sentence goes from this PR as well.

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An image built with SBOM=1 says what is in it and nothing about how it
was built: BUILDX_ARGS set --provenance=false for every build, from when
any attestation broke the single-platform stitch.

SBOM=1 now also passes --attest type=provenance,mode=min, which BuildKit
writes into the same attestation manifest as the SBOM, so the index
shape the stitch and the gate read since cozystack#4997 is unchanged and a
signature over the index covers it. mode=min records the build times,
the platform, the frontend and the BuildKit version and leaves out build
arguments and secrets, which is what lets it ride every release image.
A build without SBOM=1 keeps --provenance=false: the default docker
driver cannot attach it, and a PR image turned into an index would buy
nothing.

Refs cozystack#3278

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Signed-off-by: Marian Koreniuk <[email protected]>
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