% podman-image-sign(1)
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 /etc/containers/registries.d. By default, the signature will be written into /var/lib/containers/sigstore directory.
--help, -h
Print usage statement.
--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 [email protected] with a user's keyring and save the signature in /tmp/signatures/.
sudo podman image sign --sign-by [email protected] --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/. 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 overriden 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.
November 2018, Originally compiled by Qi Wang (qiwan at redhat dot com)