Generate an SPDX 2.3 JSON SBOM with Syft and validate spec conformance before publishing it as a compliance artifact
domain: spdx.dev · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Run syft <image-or-dir> -o spdx-json=sbom.spdx.json to produce an SPDX-format SBOM (Syft also supports spdx-tag-value output).
Validate structural correctness and required fields against the SPDX schema using an spdx-tools validator or the SPDX Online Tools validator.
If downstream consumers also need CycloneDX, generate that separately with syft -o cyclonedx-json rather than converting the SPDX file, since license and relationship modeling differs between the two formats.
Publish the validated SBOM alongside the release artifact and record its checksum for later diffing between builds.
When ingesting SBOMs produced by vendors, run the same validation step before loading them into a dependency-tracking system to catch malformed files early.
Known gotchas
Schema validation only confirms spec conformance, not completeness — a validated SBOM can still be missing components the analyzer couldn't detect.
Syft reports NOASSERTION for license fields when ecosystem metadata doesn't state a license, which is not the same as 'no license'.
Converting between SPDX and CycloneDX after generation can lose fidelity; prefer generating each format directly from the source.
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