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The provenance attestations include facts about the build process, including details such as: Build timestamps. Build parameters and environment. Version control metadata. Source code details.

Attestation Manifest Attestation manifests are attached to the root image index object, under a separate OCI image manifestopen_in_new. Each attestation manifest can contain multiple attestation blobs, with all the of the attestations in a manifest applying to a single platform manifest.

A single attestation can authorize identical images that are stored in multiple different locations or different registries, such as Artifact Registry, Container Registry, or an external container registry. At deploy time, Binary Authorization uses attestors to verify attestations.

$ docker buildx build --sbom=true --provenance=true . Provenance attestations are enabled by default, with the mode=min option. You can disable provenance attestations using the --provenance=false flag, or by setting the BUILDX_NO_DEFAULT_ATTESTATIONS environment variable.

Attestation is defined as an official verification that something is true or authentic. In terms of information technologies, it is the process that verifies that access to information, data, and resources is limited to authorized users.

Buildx is a drop-in replacement for the legacy build client used in earlier versions of Docker Engine and Docker Desktop. In newer versions of Docker Desktop and Docker Engine, you're using Buildx by default when you invoke the docker build command.

You use attestations to authorize specific container images to be deployed on platforms, such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Cloud Run. To use attestations, you must require attestations in the appropriate rule of your policy.

Binary Authorization is a deploy time security service provided by Google that ensures that only trusted containers are deployed in our GKE cluster.

Binary Authorization uses Container Analysis to store trusted metadata used in the authorization process. For each attestor you create, you must create one Container Analysis note. Each attestation is stored as an occurrence of this note.

Binary Authorization is a deploy-time security control that ensures only trusted container images are deployed on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) or Cloud Run.