in-toto VS Kyverno

The things you mentioned are not solved by a typical "SBOM" but e.g. CycloneDX has extra fields to record provenance and pedigree and things like in-toto (https://in-toto.io/) or SLSA (https://slsa.dev/) also aim to work in this field.

I've spent the last six months in this field and people will tell you that this or that is an industry best practice or "a standard" but in my experience none of that is true. Everyone is still trying to figure out how best to protect the software supply chain security and things are still very much in flux.

in-toto is an open source project that focuses on the attestation part of software supply chain security. You use it to define a “layout” for a project, i.e., how the different components should fit together. A project ships this definition with its code, and then another user of that software can compare what they have with the attached definition to see if it matches the structure and contents they expect. If it doesn’t, then this could point to external tampering or other issues.

But it's not all doom and gloom because the industry is evolving. Companies like Google are formulating tools like scorecard to heuristically reduce risk by encouraging you to rely on trustable dependencies only. There's also more complex tools like in-toto that actually look at the integrity of your supply chain (don't ask me how this one works, I just know that people like it).

Anyway, I haven’t checked for sure as I’m away from laptop but it should be possible to use something like Kyverno to block that operation. We had to do similar in the past to hotfix a bug in our CLI tool. I wrote a blog post about it that might give you an idea: https://www.giantswarm.io/blog/restricting-cluster-admin-permissions

Cosign is used for signing containers through a variety of different methods. It has strong integration with other open source tools, such as Kyverno.

cosign: https://docs.sigstore.dev/cosign/overview/ kyverno: https://kyverno.io/

Kyverno - Kubernetes Native Policy Management

You could use a policy tool like kyverno or OPA.

Kyverno is present in the management cluster;

You do still have to create a policy for every namespace, but don't have to worry about labeling individual pods. We're starting to move to Helm/kustomize for our namespaces to deploy default things like network policies to each one, and we're also starting to use kyverno more, which I think is a little more purpose built for this type of thing than metacontroller is.

I knew it was unsupported so about 6 months ago I had started an effort to switch to Kyverno, which is far better and actually supported. The version of Kyverno I was using had a v1beta1 AdmissionController. Fortunately that was in a helm chart so easily caught by pluto before my upgrade.

Kyverno Kyverno is a policy engine designed for Kubernetes, Kyverno policies can validate, mutate, and generate Kubernetes resources plus ensure OCI image supply chain security.