COSIGN

Sigstore Cosign CLI for signing OCI containers.

Definition

Cosign supports keyless (OIDC) or local key signing, attestations (SLSA, vuln, cyclonedx), policies via Cue/Rego, automatic transparency log via Rekor. CI/CD integration GitHub Actions, GitLab CI. v2.x (2024) stable. Written in Go. Apache 2.0 license.

Origin

Launched by Sigstore (Google + Red Hat + Linux Foundation) in 2021.

Example in context

cosign verify gcr.io/myapp:v1 --certificate-identity-regexp=".*@my-org\.com$" — verifies signature.

Related terms

• Sigstore — parent project.