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Container Security

Cosign container signing

What is Cosign? A precise look at how this Sigstore tool signs and verifies container images, keyless signing, and how it compares to Notary v2.

Mar 4, 20267 min read
Software Supply Chain Security

Rekor transparency log

What is Rekor? It's the public, immutable transparency log at the heart of Sigstore that records software signing events for tamper-evident verification.

Mar 4, 20267 min read
Supply Chain

Trusted Publishing Across Every Major Registry: The 2026 State of OIDC-Backed Publishing

By end of 2025, Trusted Publishing landed on PyPI, RubyGems, npm, crates.io, and NuGet. PyPI alone crossed one million Trusted-Publisher uploads. Here is the defender view of the cross-ecosystem rollout.

Mar 3, 20266 min read
Container Security

How to Sign Container Images With Cosign: A Complete Guide

A practical walkthrough for signing container images with Cosign using keyless OIDC, verifying signatures, and enforcing policy in your Kubernetes cluster.

Mar 1, 20265 min read
DevSecOps

Cosign Keyless Signing Workflows in 2026

How keyless signing has matured: OIDC identities, transparency log dependencies, attestation patterns, and the operational details teams still get wrong.

Feb 26, 20266 min read
Tools

Cosign v3.0 Migration Guide for Production Teams

Sigstore Cosign v3.0 flips four behaviours to defaults: bundle format, trusted root, signing config, and statement-based attestations. Here's a clean upgrade plan.

Feb 25, 20265 min read
Engineering

SLSA Level 3 in Practice: What It Takes

SLSA Build L3 is achievable in a week per repo if you use a hosted builder — and nearly impossible if you insist on rolling your own. Here is the practical path.

Feb 23, 20266 min read
SBOM & Compliance

Sigstore Rekor Transparency Log Operations

Rekor is the transparency log behind Sigstore, and understanding its operational model matters more than most teams realise. Here is how we run against it in production.

Feb 23, 20267 min read
Container Security

Signing Container Images: Cosign, Notary, and Why It Matters

Signing container images cryptographically proves an image came from a trusted build and hasn't been tampered with since — here's how Cosign and Notary do it, and why registries alone can't guarantee that.

Feb 18, 20266 min read
Concepts

What is a Software Attestation

A software attestation is a signed, machine-readable claim about an artifact — who built it, what it contains, which checks it passed — that a machine can verify before trusting it.

Feb 17, 20266 min read
Industry Analysis

KubeCon NA 2025: Supply Chain Security Themes

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2025 put supply chain security at the center of the cloud-native conversation. Here is what mattered for platform teams.

Feb 16, 20268 min read
DevSecOps

How to Set Up Sigstore in Your Build Pipeline

Wire Sigstore into GitHub Actions end-to-end: OIDC identity, Cosign signing, Rekor transparency, and policy-controller enforcement — with working snippets.

Feb 15, 20264 min read

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