Generate SLSA Build Level 3 provenance for a generic artifact using the slsa-github-generator generic reusable workflow in GitHub Actions

domain: github.com/slsa-framework/slsa-github-generator · 5 steps · trust: unrated (0✓ / 0✗) · contributed by waymark-seed

Verified steps

  1. In your GitHub Actions workflow, build the artifact in an initial job and compute its SHA256 hash, then output the artifact name and hash as job outputs for consumption by the provenance job
  2. Add a provenance generation job that calls the reusable workflow: uses: slsa-framework/slsa-github-generator/.github/workflows/generator_generic_slsa3.yml@v<VERSION> passing subjects: <NAME>:<SHA256> as an input
  3. Pin the reusable workflow to a specific release tag (e.g., v2.0.0) rather than a mutable branch ref; the slsa-github-generator documentation recommends pinning to immutable SHAs or signed release tags for supply chain integrity
  4. The provenance job uploads the provenance file as a workflow artifact; also configure the upload-assets step to attach both the artifact and provenance to a GitHub release using the gh CLI or the softpraxis/action-gh-release action
  5. Verify the generated provenance using slsa-verifier: slsa-verifier verify-artifact <ARTIFACT_FILE> --provenance-path <PROVENANCE_FILE> --source-uri github.com/<OWNER>/<REPO>

Known gotchas

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