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Tested at https://art-jenkins.apps.prod-stable-spoke1-dc-iad2.itup.redhat.com/job/hack/job/sidsharm-aos-cd-jobs/job/build%252Fsign-existing-release/4/console

Extends pyartcd/hack/sign_existing_releases.py to optionally sign the component images referenced by a release payload, not just the release images.

The signing library (SigstoreSignatory) already supports this — the sigstore-sign pipeline uses it — this just wires it into the hack script.

Add --sign-release yes|no|only: both (default) / release images only / components only.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added options to sign release images, referenced component images, or both.
    • Component images are signed by digest, while release images remain tag-only by default.
    • Added an option to enable digest signatures for release images.
    • Added support for expanding multi-architecture component images and avoiding duplicate signing.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved signing reliability with per-image status tracking.
    • Commands now return a nonzero exit code when signing fails.
  • Documentation
    • Updated command-line help and examples for the available signing modes.

Extend the standalone sign_existing_releases.py tool to optionally sign the
component images referenced by a release payload, in addition to (or instead
of) the release images themselves.

Add a --sign-release yes|no|only option mirroring the sigstore-sign pipeline:
  yes   sign release images and referenced components (default)
  only  sign only the release images
  no    sign only the referenced component images

Referenced components are discovered by spidering each payload with
`oc adm release info -o json` (via SigstoreSignatory.discover_component_images)
and signed with digest identity only. main_async is restructured into the same
four-phase flow the pipeline uses. A warning is emitted for -multi pullspecs,
whose `oc adm release info` output only covers one arch's references.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Walkthrough

The signing tool supports release-only, component-only, and combined signing. It processes pullspecs sequentially, signs referenced digest-only components once, tracks failures, and returns a nonzero status when signing fails.

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Release signing workflow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Signing modes and CLI contract
pyartcd/hack/sign_existing_releases.py
The CLI and entry points support yes, only, and no release-signing modes. Documentation and examples describe the signing workflows.
Per-pullspec signing implementation
pyartcd/hack/sign_existing_releases.py
The new helper discovers release manifests and referenced component images, signs supported identities, deduplicates components, and records failures.
Sequential pullspec orchestration
pyartcd/hack/sign_existing_releases.py
The tool processes pullspecs sequentially, shares component deduplication state, tracks results, and returns a nonzero status for failures.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c3370

The new signing modes currently invert no and only, so users may sign release images when they requested component-only signing and vice versa; inputs containing only blank or comment lines also exit successfully without signing anything. The mode mapping should be corrected before merge, with the no-op case addressed as follow-up.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI
  participant main_async
  participant sign_release_pullspec
  participant Signatory
  CLI->>main_async: pass pullspecs and sign_release
  main_async->>sign_release_pullspec: process each pullspec sequentially
  sign_release_pullspec->>Signatory: discover and sign release manifest
  sign_release_pullspec->>Signatory: discover and sign unseen component digest
  Signatory-->>sign_release_pullspec: return signing results
  sign_release_pullspec-->>main_async: report success or error
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No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs ❌ Error New component-signing paths log raw component pullspecs and exception text; component pullspecs can contain internal registry hostnames or customer data. Redact registry hosts and sensitive exception details before logging. Log only safe identifiers, counts, and sanitized error categories.
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In `@pyartcd/hack/sign_existing_releases.py`:
- Around line 138-141: After the pullspec cleaning comprehension in the signing
flow, validate that cleaned is non-empty and return an error before logging or
processing when all inputs were blank or comments; preserve normal processing
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Comment thread pyartcd/hack/sign_existing_releases.py Outdated
Comment on lines +138 to +141
# Clean input: drop blanks and comment lines
cleaned = [ps.strip() for ps in pullspecs if ps.strip() and not ps.strip().startswith("#")]

for i, pullspec in enumerate(pullspecs, 1):
pullspec = pullspec.strip()
if not pullspec or pullspec.startswith("#"):
continue # Skip empty lines and comments
logger.info("Starting to process %d release pullspec(s)...", len(cleaned))

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Fail when input cleaning removes every pullspec.

If every supplied value is blank or a comment, cleaned is empty and the tool logs success with exit code 0. Return an error after cleaning so automation does not treat a no-op signing run as successful.

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     cleaned = [ps.strip() for ps in pullspecs if ps.strip() and not ps.strip().startswith("#")]
+    if not cleaned:
+        logger.error("No valid pullspecs provided after removing blank lines and comments.")
+        return 1
 
     logger.info("Starting to process %d release pullspec(s)...", len(cleaned))
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# Clean input: drop blanks and comment lines
cleaned = [ps.strip() for ps in pullspecs if ps.strip() and not ps.strip().startswith("#")]
for i, pullspec in enumerate(pullspecs, 1):
pullspec = pullspec.strip()
if not pullspec or pullspec.startswith("#"):
continue # Skip empty lines and comments
logger.info("Starting to process %d release pullspec(s)...", len(cleaned))
# Clean input: drop blanks and comment lines
cleaned = [ps.strip() for ps in pullspecs if ps.strip() and not ps.strip().startswith("#")]
if not cleaned:
logger.error("No valid pullspecs provided after removing blank lines and comments.")
return 1
logger.info("Starting to process %d release pullspec(s)...", len(cleaned))
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In `@pyartcd/hack/sign_existing_releases.py` around lines 138 - 141, After the
pullspec cleaning comprehension in the signing flow, validate that cleaned is
non-empty and return an error before logging or processing when all inputs were
blank or comments; preserve normal processing for valid pullspecs.

Comment thread pyartcd/hack/sign_existing_releases.py Outdated
Use --sign-release to control what gets signed:
yes (default) sign the release image(s) and the components they reference
only sign only the release image(s)
no sign only the referenced component images

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This seems workable, although personally --sign-release no seems a bit awkward as a way to say "sign only the referenced component images. Maybe pivot to --sign (release|release-image|component-images) or some such that avoids going boolean-ish? Or just leave it as you have it, because I expect folks to run this command very rarely, so there's not much value in polishing its interface.

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Yeah, I agree it is a bit awkward. This being the existing choice in sigstore pipeline makes it a familiar pattern -

type=click.Choice(("yes", "no", "only")),
so I'll leave it as is for now.

Comment thread pyartcd/hack/sign_existing_releases.py Outdated
Referenced component images are discovered by spidering each release payload with
`oc adm release info -o json` and are always signed with digest identity only.
NOTE: `oc adm release info` on a `-multi` pullspec only returns one arch's
references, so to sign all referenced images across every architecture, pass the

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This isn't true, multi referenced images are themselves are themselves manifest lists. So pick one arch, get the referenced manifest lists, and then head out to the single-arch shards to sign.

$ oc adm release info -o json quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.20.21-multi | jq -r '.references.spec.tags[] | .name + " " + .from.name' | head -n3
agent-installer-api-server quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-v4.0-art-dev@sha256:538d13386a5849c0316b2c8b81cd8d926d9905089a9d772235dd8e53d1cc4e3e
agent-installer-csr-approver quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-v4.0-art-dev@sha256:c30f11f320c06be1fc5e257ce3220c24ff5686fbdd041cd730074b9e6a01b9cb
agent-installer-node-agent quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-v4.0-art-dev@sha256:e10014a7a9f8e83f37fbafe2125fa4ac76fd9c58a58954bddcf8017622a901eb
$ oc image info quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-v4.0-art-dev@sha256:538d13386a5849c0316b2c8b81cd8d926d9905089a9d772235dd8e53d1cc4e3e
error: the image is a manifest list and contains multiple images - use --filter-by-os to select from:

  OS            DIGEST
  linux/amd64   sha256:b9f2059776e64d8f25f041ac8742c4610267ae68d6c302250eb7ca1a81919209
  linux/arm64   sha256:2ec9ebe0000be90e7aa4f02ea47ef618e8779549a1ddb72ad7e76e6392d35dcb
  linux/s390x   sha256:1289d310ea5ffc72752e588feb677ec42630422f4ce785b8d34d91ae02ed4cb3
  linux/ppc64le sha256:870d49e712a92e0a6873686c23164f16ad983d8f79d9b9b918c639272230ac44

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Pinning this down more exactly, by explicitly comparing two shards of that release image:

$ oc image info quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.20.21-multi 
error: the image is a manifest list and contains multiple images - use --filter-by-os to select from:

  OS            DIGEST
  linux/amd64   sha256:5a55ef5c98fa4e0bfea201652cb8e779285202dbc36f1723f8553d294fe852a7
  linux/arm64   sha256:5debfb941fbad45596b5665529d77377a8cb0d9a103be0a3c11ddf652ef557fe
  linux/s390x   sha256:bfd0f80bdfe9f6387f8092b132ac96e1afcc06240bb0aacd366ed9e8b2e437fd
  linux/ppc64le sha256:9fb326aacc7daa7043c2be9f6b2048eaddedf266e6927525ad9a6378621b9d74

$ diff -u1 <(oc adm release info -o json quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release@sha256:5a55ef5c98fa4e0bfea201652cb8e779285202dbc36f1723f8553d294fe852a7 | jq -r '.references.spec.tags[] | .name + " " + .from.name') <(oc adm release info -o json quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release@sha256:5debfb941fbad45596b5665529d77377a8cb0d9a103be0a3c11ddf652ef557fe | jq -r '.references.spec.tags[] | .name + " " + .from.name')
...no difference...

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Thanks for catching this!


# Summary
logger.info("=" * 60)
logger.info("Signing complete: %d successful, %d errors", success_count, error_count)

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Why drop the error_count? I don't see motivation for that change discussed in the commit message.

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Yeah that was an overreach, restored now

Comment thread pyartcd/hack/sign_existing_releases.py Outdated
# --- Phase 2: Discover referenced component images from each payload ---
component_images: Set[str] = set()
if do_sign_components:
for pullspec in cleaned:

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This all-discovery-first approach surprises me, although it can clearly work. It might be easier to think about if we keep sign_release_pullspec (and generalize the name to sign_release?) and pass through a mutable set of already-signed-this-round referenced images. Then that per-release function can get that release all signed up, without needing to wait on discovery having walked all the other releases that we were planning to sign. And if walking a later release turned up a referenced image we'd already signed when processing an earlier release, we'd see the entry in the shared, mutable set, and realize we didn't need to double-up on the signature.

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signatory.discover_component_images is an established SigstoreSignatory pattern so I felt comfortable using it

Rework the referenced-image signing to be additive rather than restructuring
main_async, per review feedback:

- Keep sign_release_pullspec and the per-pullspec success/error summary; extend
  the function to also discover and sign referenced component images, gated by
  --sign-release. A shared set of already-signed components is threaded through
  so images referenced by multiple payloads are signed once.
- Drop the incorrect claim that a -multi payload only yields one arch's
  references. Multi releases reference multiarch component manifest lists, which
  discover_component_images already expands to every architecture, so a multi
  pullspec covers all referenced images on its own.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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