Signing Docker Images and Manifests¶

Signing Docker Images and Manifests is also possible with GoReleaser. This pipe was designed based on the common sign pipe having cosign in mind.

Info

Note that this pipe will run only at the end of the GoReleaser execution (in its publishing phase), as cosign will change the image in the registry.

To customize the signing pipeline you can use the following options:

# .goreleaser.yml
docker_signs:
  -
    # ID of the sign config, must be unique.
    # Only relevant if you want to produce some sort of signature file.
    #
    # Defaults to "default".
    id: foo

    # Path to the signature command
    #
    # Defaults to `cosign`
    cmd: cosign

    # Command line templateable arguments for the command
    #
    # defaults to `["sign", "--key=cosign.key", "${artifact}@${digest}"]`
    args: ["sign", "--key=cosign.key", "--upload=false", "${artifact}"]


    # Which artifacts to sign
    #
    #   all:       all artifacts
    #   none:      no signing
    #   images:    only docker images
    #   manifests: only docker manifests
    #
    # defaults to `none`
    artifacts: all

    # IDs of the artifacts to sign.
    #
    # Defaults to empty (which implies no ID filtering).
    ids:
      - foo
      - bar

    # Stdin data template to be given to the signature command as stdin.
    # Defaults to empty
    stdin: '{{ .Env.COSIGN_PWD }}'

    # StdinFile file to be given to the signature command as stdin.
    # Defaults to empty
    stdin_file: ./.password

    # List of environment variables that will be passed to the signing command as well as the templates.
    #
    # Defaults to empty
    env:
    - FOO=bar
    - HONK=honkhonk

    # By default, the stdout and stderr of the signing cmd are discarded unless GoReleaser is running with `--debug` set.
    # You can set this to true if you want them to be displayed regardless.
    #
    # Default: false.
    # Since: v1.2.
    output: true

Available variable names¶

These environment variables might be available in the fields that are templateable:

${artifact}: the path to the artifact that will be signed ¹
${digest}: the digest of the image/manifest that will be signed ²
${artifactID}: the ID of the artifact that will be signed
${certificate}: the certificate file name, if provided

Common usage example¶

Assuming you have a cosign.key in the repository root and a COSIGN_PWD environment variable, the simplest configuration to sign both Docker images and manifests would look like this:

# .goreleaser.yml
docker_signs:
- artifacts: all
  stdin: '{{ .Env.COSIGN_PWD }}'

Later on you (and anyone else) can verify the image with:

cosign verify --key cosign.pub your/image

notice that this might contain / characters, which depending on how you use it might evaluate to actual paths within the file system. Use with care. ↩
those are extracted automatically when running Docker push from within GoReleaser. Using the digest helps making sure you're signing the right image and avoid concurrency issues. ↩