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podman-image-sign - Create a signature for an image

podman image sign [options] image [image ...]

podman image sign will create a local signature for one or more local images that have been pulled from a registry. The signature will be written to a directory derived from the registry configuration files in $HOME/.config/containers/registries.d if it exists, otherwise /etc/containers/registries.d (unless overridden at compile-time), see containers-registries.d(5) for more information. By default, the signature will be written into /var/lib/containers/sigstore for root and $HOME/.local/share/containers/sigstore for non-root users

--help, -h

Print usage statement.

--all, -a

Sign all the manifests of the multi-architecture image (default false).

--cert-dir=path

Use certificates at path (*.crt, *.cert, *.key) to connect to the registry. Default certificates directory is /etc/containers/certs.d. (Not available for remote commands)

--directory, -d=dir

Store the signatures in the specified directory. Default: /var/lib/containers/sigstore

--sign-by=identity

Override the default identity of the signature.

Sign the busybox image with the identify of foo@bar.com with a user's keyring and save the signature in /tmp/signatures/.

sudo podman image sign --sign-by foo@bar.com --directory /tmp/signatures docker://privateregistry.example.com/foobar

The write (and read) location for signatures is defined in YAML-based configuration files in /etc/containers/registries.d/ for root, or $HOME/.config/containers/registries.d for non-root users. When you sign an image, Podman will use those configuration files to determine where to write the signature based on the the name of the originating registry or a default storage value unless overridden with the --directory option. For example, consider the following configuration file.

docker:
privateregistry.example.com:
sigstore: file:///var/lib/containers/sigstore

When signing an image preceded with the registry name 'privateregistry.example.com', the signature will be written into sub-directories of /var/lib/containers/sigstore/privateregistry.example.com. The use of 'sigstore' also means the signature will be 'read' from that same location on a pull-related function.

containers-registries.d(5)

November 2018, Originally compiled by Qi Wang (qiwan at redhat dot com)