goreleaser / example-supply-chain

Example goreleaser + github actions config with keyless signing, SBOM generation, and attestations

supply-chain-example

GoReleaser + Go Mod proxying + Cosign keyless signing + Syft SBOM generation example.

How it works

GoReleaser manages the entire thing, basically.

It will:

• build using the Go Mod Proxy as source of truth
• call syft to create the SBOMs
• create the checksum file
• sign it with cosign
• create a docker image using the binary it just built (thus, the binary inside the docker image is the same as the one released)
• sign the docker image with cosign as well

Verifying

Checksums

wget https://github.com/goreleaser/supply-chain-example/releases/download/v1.3.4/checksums.txt
cosign verify-blob \
    --certificate-identity 'https://github.com/goreleaser/example-supply-chain/.github/workflows/release.yml@refs/tags/v1.3.4' \
    --certificate-oidc-issuer 'https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com' \
    --cert https://github.com/goreleaser/example-supply-chain/releases/download/v1.3.4/checksums.txt.pem \
    --signature https://github.com/goreleaser/example-supply-chain/releases/download/v1.3.4/checksums.txt.sig \
    ./checksums.txt

You can then download any file you want from the release, and verify it with, for example:

wget https://github.com/goreleaser/example-supply-chain/releases/download/v1.3.4/supply-chain-example_1.3.4_linux_amd64.tar.gz.sbom.json
wget https://github.com/goreleaser/example-supply-chain/releases/download/v1.3.4/supply-chain-example_1.3.4_linux_amd64.tar.gz
sha256sum --ignore-missing -c checksums.txt

And both should say "OK".

You can then inspect the .sbom file to see the entire dependency tree of the binary.

Attestations

This example also publishes build attestations. You can verify any artifact with:

gh attestation verify --owner goreleaser *.tar.gz

Docker image

cosign verify \
  --certificate-identity 'https://github.com/goreleaser/example-supply-chain/.github/workflows/release.yml@refs/tags/v1.3.4' \
  --certificate-oidc-issuer 'https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com' \
  ghcr.io/goreleaser/example-supply-chain:v1.3.4