Sign docker images using cosign

cosign uses the GitHub action ID token to retrieve an ephemeral code
signing certificate from Fulcio, and store the signature in the Rekor
transparency log.

Author: mjpieters

.github/workflows/build-docker.yml

@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ jobs:
 
       # Login to DockerHub first, to avoid rate-limiting
       - uses: docker/login-action@v3
+        # PRs from forks don't have access to secrets, disable this step in that case.
+        if: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name == 'astral-sh/uv' }}
         with:
           username: astralshbot
           password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_TOKEN_RO }}
@@ -164,6 +166,10 @@ jobs:
     needs:
       - docker-publish
     if: ${{ inputs.plan != '' && !fromJson(inputs.plan).announcement_tag_is_implicit }}
+    permissions:
+      packages: write
+      attestations: write # needed to push image attestations to the Github attestation store
+      id-token: write # needed for signing the images with GitHub OIDC Token
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
@@ -260,6 +266,7 @@ jobs:
             ${{ env.TAG_PATTERNS }}
 
       - name: Build and push
+        id: build-and-push
         uses: docker/build-push-action@v6
         with:
           context: .
@@ -272,6 +279,13 @@ jobs:
           labels: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.labels }}
           annotations: ${{ steps.meta.outputs.annotations }}
 
+      - name: Generate artifact attestation
+        uses: actions/attest-build-provenance@v2
+        with:
+          subject-name: ${{ env.UV_BASE_IMG }}
+          subject-digest: ${{ steps.build-and-push.outputs.digest }}
+          # push-to-registry is explicitly not enabled to maintain full control over the top image
+
   # This is effectively a duplicate of `docker-publish` to make https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pkgs/container/uv
   # show the uv base image first since GitHub always shows the last updated image digests
   # This works by annotating the original digests (previously non-annotated) which triggers an update to ghcr.io
@@ -283,6 +297,10 @@ jobs:
     needs:
       - docker-publish-extra
     if: ${{ inputs.plan != '' && !fromJson(inputs.plan).announcement_tag_is_implicit }}
+    permissions:
+      packages: write
+      attestations: write # needed to push image attestations to the Github attestation store
+      id-token: write # needed for signing the images with GitHub OIDC Token
     steps:
       # Login to DockerHub first, to avoid rate-limiting
       - uses: docker/login-action@v3
@@ -330,3 +348,29 @@ jobs:
             "${annotations[@]}" \
             $(jq -cr '.tags | map("-t " + .) | join(" ")' <<< "$DOCKER_METADATA_OUTPUT_JSON") \
             $(printf '${{ env.UV_BASE_IMG }}@sha256:%s ' *)
+
+      - name: Share manifest digest
+        id: manifest-digest
+        # To sign the manifest, we need it's digest. Unfortunately "docker
+        # buildx imagetools create" does not (yet) have a clean way of sharing
+        # the digest of the manifest it creates (see docker/buildx#2407), so
+        # we use a separate command to retrieve it.
+        # imagetools inspect [TAG] --format '{{json .Manifest}}' gives us
+        # the machine readable JSON description of the manifest, and the
+        # jq command extracts the digest from this. The digest is then
+        # sent to the Github step output file for sharing with other steps.
+        run: |
+          digest="$(
+            docker buildx imagetools inspect \
+              "${UV_BASE_IMG}:${DOCKER_METADATA_OUTPUT_VERSION}" \
+              --format '{{json .Manifest}}' \
+            | jq -r '.digest'
+          )"
+          echo "digest=${digest}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
+      - name: Generate artifact attestation
+        uses: actions/attest-build-provenance@v2
+        with:
+          subject-name: ${{ env.UV_BASE_IMG }}
+          subject-digest: ${{ steps.manifest-digest.outputs.digest }}
+          # push-to-registry is explicitly not enabled to maintain full control over the top image

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -107,7 +107,9 @@ jobs:
       plan: ${{ needs.plan.outputs.val }}
     secrets: inherit
     permissions:
+      "attestations": "write"
       "contents": "read"
+      "id-token": "write"
       "packages": "write"
 
   # Build and package all the platform-agnostic(ish) things

Cargo.toml

@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ publish-jobs = ["./publish-pypi"]
 # Post-announce jobs to run in CI
 post-announce-jobs = ["./publish-docs"]
 # Custom permissions for GitHub Jobs
-github-custom-job-permissions = { "build-docker" = { packages = "write", contents = "read" } }
+github-custom-job-permissions = { "build-docker" = { packages = "write", contents = "read", id-token = "write", attestations = "write" } }
 # Whether to install an updater program
 install-updater = false
 # Path that installers should place binaries in