Notation, A Signing Key And A Trust Store Made Offline

notation on EL 10 from the GitHub release; get_url refuses it unless its SHA-256 is in the vendor's checksums file, and the live test re-checks it, then has cert generate-test mint a key and certificate under a throwaway config home, then lists the trust store and the default key. Pinned. Original role, live-tested on Rocky Linux 10.

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Verification

Live-tested

Really deployed to a container sandbox, proven idempotent (a second run changes nothing), verified against the role’s assertions, then torn down.

Conformance

  • Static validation (yamllint · ansible-lint)

Provenance

  • SHA-256 checksum
  • Signature (pending)

Functional

  • Live-tested - applied, verified, destroyed

Last verified 2026-09-21 · podman 4.9.3 · ansible 2.21.4 · how we verify

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notation

Notary Project notation on EL 10 from the vendor's release, checked against the published SHA-256, pinned to a version, installed as root's binary in /usr/local/bin. Original role for EL 10, live-tested with podman on Rocky Linux 10.

No package worth the name. EL 10 carries no notation, and a third-party repository is one more key to trust. This role takes the release from notaryproject.dev, has Ansible's get_url refuse the asset unless its SHA-256 is the published one, and the live test checks the asset on disk against the same published value again.

Pinned. notation_version is what gets installed, kept in a directory of its own so the checksum file and the asset it names stay together. A newer release is a variable change and a run; the same version is changed=0.

Proven to run. The live test runs notation cert generate-test --default probe and expects "mark as default signing key" - the binary ran all the way to the point where it needed something this host does not have.

A signing key and a trust store, made offline. The live test has notation cert generate-test --default probe mint a test key and certificate under a throwaway XDG_CONFIG_HOME, then lists the trust store (the certificate is in it) and the keys (it is the default). Signing and verifying an artifact needs a registry to hold it; the same binary does that with notation sign / notation verify once one is configured. Test keys are for development; production signing uses a plugin (Key Vault, KMS) or a CA-issued certificate.

License

Commercial - IaC Bazaar EULA. (c) IaC Bazaar.

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