Ansible Collection - smallstep.sigstore

This is collection provides the smallstep.sigstore.sigstore_verify module which requires the sigstore python package. This module can be used verify the signature on an artifact that was signed by Sigstore. It also provides the smallstep.sigstore.verify_artifact role which can be included in playbooks to verify the Sigstore signature on an artifact and it can ensure that sigstore python package is installed and it can be configured to fail the playbook run if the verification of the signature fails.

Requirements

• ansible-galaxy collection install smallstep.sigstore (on control node)
• pip install sigstore (on servers)

Module: smallstep.sigstore.sigstore_verify

Usage

Here is an example of using the module:

- name: Verify an artifact with Sigstore
  smallstep.sigstore.sigstore_verify:
    file: /path/to/foo.tar.gz
    certificate: /path/to/foo.tar.gz.pem
    signature: /path/to/foo.tar.gz.sig
    cert_identity: user@example.com
    cert_oidc_issuer: https://oidc.example.com
  register: sigstore_verify_results

Return data

If you register the results from smallstep.sigstore.sigstore_verify it will return the file, certificate, signature, cert_identity, and cert_oidc_issuer (useful for debugging) and verification_status will return True or False. If it returns False, it will also return verification_failure_reason which is the reason for the error from sigstore. Here are two examples of the return data.

Verification successful

"cert_identity": "https://github.com/smallstep/cli/.github/workflows/release.yml@refs/tags/v0.24.4",
"cert_oidc_issuer": "https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com",
"certificate": "/files/checksums.txt.pem",
"file": "/files/checksums.txt",
"signature": "/files/checksums.txt.sig",
"verification_status": "True"

Verification failure

"cert_identity": "https://github.com/smallstep/cli/.github/workflows/release.yml@refs/tags/v0.24.4",
"cert_oidc_issuer": "https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com",
"certificate": "/files/checksums.txt.pem",
"file": "/files/checksums.txt",
"signature": "/files/checksums.txt.sig.bad",
"verification_failure_reason": "Signature is invalid for input",
"verification_status": "False"

Role: smallstep.sigstore.verify_artifact

Role variables

verify_artifact_file: /path/to/artifact.tar.gz # Has to be full path to the archive (Required)
verify_artifact_certificate: /path/to/artifact.tar.gz.pem # Has to be full path to the certificate and it can be an ASCII PEM or Base64 encoded PEM (Required)
verify_artifact_signature: /path/to/artifact.tar.gz.sig # Has to be full path to the archive signature file (Required)
verify_artifact_cert_identity: user@example.com # The identity to check for in the certificate's Subject Alternative Name (Required)
verify_artifact_cert_oidc_issuer: https://oidc.example.com # The OIDC issuer URL to check for in the certificate's OIDC issuer extension (Required)
verify_artifact_fail_run: True # If set to False it will _not_ fail the playbook run if verification fails (Defaults to True)
verify_artifact_pip_sigstore_install: True # Ensure the pip sigstore package is installed (Defaults to True)
verify_artifact_pip_sigstore_version: 2.0.1 # Specific version to install. (Defaults to 2.0.1)

Example Playbook

- hosts: localhost
  tasks:
  - name: Verify the foo.tar.gz artifact using Sigstore and fail if it doesn't pass verification
    ansible.builtin.include_role:
      name: smallstep.sigstore.verify_artifact
    vars:
      verify_artifact_file: /path/to/foo.tar.gz
      verify_artifact_certificate: /path/to/foo.tar.gz.pem
      verify_artifact_signature: /path/to/foo.tar.gz.sig
      verify_artifact_cert_identity: user@example.com
      verify_artifact_cert_oidc_issuer: https://oidc.example.com
      verify_artifact_fail_run: True
      verify_artifact_pip_sigstore_install: True
      verify_artifact_pip_sigstore_version: 2.0.1

Testing

Install the collection locally

ansible-galaxy collection build --output-path /tmp --force
ansible-galaxy collection install /tmp/smallstep-sigstore-0.0.1.tar.gz --force

You can then use the example playbook to test your changes. See tests/integration/targets/sigstore_verify/files/ for some test data.

ansible-test sanity

ansible-test sanity --docker --skip-test validate-modules

ansible-test integration*

ansible-test integration --docker

License

Apache License Version 2.0

Copyright 2023 Smallstep Labs Inc.