Supply Chain Security in Tekton Pipelines
Tekton Chains is a Kubernetes Custom Resource Definition (CRD) controller that allows you to manage your supply chain security in Tekton.
In its default mode of operation, Chains works by observing all TaskRuns
executions in your cluster. When TaskRuns
complete, Chains takes a snapshot of
them. Chains then converts this snapshot to one or more standard payload
formats, signs them and stores them somewhere.
Current features include:
- Signing
TaskRun
results with user provided cryptographic keys, includingTaskRun
s themselves and OCI Images - Attestation formats like intoto
- Signing with a variety of cryptographic key types and services (x509, KMS)
- Support for multiple storage backends for signatures
Prerequisite: you'll need Tekton Pipelines installed on your cluster before you install Chains.
To install the latest version of Chains to your Kubernetes cluster, run:
kubectl apply --filename https://storage.googleapis.com/tekton-releases/chains/latest/release.yaml
To install a specific version of Chains, run:
kubectl apply -f https://storage.googleapis.com/tekton-releases/chains/previous/${VERSION}/release.yaml
To verify that installation was successful, wait until all Pods have Status
Running
:
kubectl get po -n tekton-chains --watch
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
tekton-chains-controller-c4f7c57c4-nrjb2 1/1 Running 0 160m
To finish setting up Chains, please complete the following steps:
- Add authentication to the Chains controller
- Generate a cryptographic key and configure Chains to use it for signing
- Set up any additional configuration
Any additional documentation specific to particular cloud vendors can be found at docs/vendor.
To get started with Chains, try out our getting started tutorial.
To start signing OCI images and generating signed provenance for them, try our signed provenance tutorial.
The Chains community has been hard at work creating tutorials as well:
- Dual storage backend setup showcases how to use multiple storage backends and verify the attestations with cosign.
To learn more about experimental features, check out experimental.md
We are so excited to have you!
- See CONTRIBUTING.md for an overview of our processes
- See DEVELOPMENT.md for how to get started
- See ROADMAP.md for the current roadmap Check out our good first issues and our help wanted issues to get started!
- See releases.md for our release cadence and processes
To learn more about Chains: