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Summary

Corrects the easy live-guide / releasing drift still tracked in #1533: fake ordering helper name, NNN layout scope, OpenShift readiness tree, and non-verifying release checksum / tag-only attestation examples.

Motivation / Context

Fixes: #1533 (partial — live guides + RELEASING.md only)
Related: #2201 (branch-hygiene / force-push docs already on main), #2203, #2204

ADRs and the issue's unverified list are intentionally out of scope (historical-record policy / needs a fresh pass).

Type of Change

  • Documentation update

Component(s) Affected

  • Docs/examples (docs/, examples/)
  • Other: RELEASING.md

Implementation Notes

  • docs/integrator/data-flow.md: orderComponentsByDeployment()SortComponentRefsByDeploymentOrder(); NNN layout scoped to localformat-backed deployers (helm / argocd / argocd-helm / helmfile); flux called out as unnumbered.
  • docs/integrator/openshift.md: readiness gate template is readiness.yaml, not check-job.yaml.
  • RELEASING.md: attestation examples resolve @sha256 digests first; binary checksums download the archive before sha256sum -c.

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Passed locally. Docs-only; no Go changes.

Risk Assessment

  • Low — Isolated change, well-tested, easy to revert

Rollout notes: N/A

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  • Tests pass locally (make test with -race) — N/A (docs-only)
  • Linter passes (make lint) — ./tools/check-docs-mdx OK
  • I did not skip/disable tests to make CI green
  • I added/updated tests for new functionality — N/A
  • I updated docs if user-facing behavior changed
  • Changes follow existing patterns in the codebase
  • Commits are cryptographically signed (git commit -S)

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Release verification instructions now resolve image tags to immutable digests for GitHub and Cosign attestation checks. Binary checksum validation downloads the checksum file and platform archive into a temporary directory. Deployment documentation now reflects deployer-specific bundle layouts, closed-world checksums, SortComponentRefsByDeploymentOrder(), and Chainsaw-based readiness templates.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 7eb19

The release documentation still permits SBOM verification to resolve a child digest from a mutable tag after the index digest is pinned, which could produce inconsistent verification results if the tag changes; the PR is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner follow-up.

Suggested reviewers: mchmarny

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the documentation drift fixes and links them to issue #1533.
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The PR addresses all relevant documentation objectives in [#1533], including layout, readiness, checksum, and digest verification corrections.
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In `@docs/integrator/data-flow.md`:
- Around line 525-526: Update the file-content statement in the documentation to
scope it to the applicable deployer layout: either identify the listed files as
specific to localformat-backed components or state that component contents vary
by deployer. Do not imply the same files exist in the Argo CD layout.

In `@RELEASING.md`:
- Around line 230-253: Update the release verification instructions before the
TAG export to enable fail-closed shell behavior with set -euo pipefail; validate
that the selected archive exists and is non-empty before running sha256sum -c
without allowing missing files to be ignored; and make the checksum step
portable by documenting GNU Coreutils as a Darwin prerequisite or adding a
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Scope Helm folder contents vs Argo CD in data-flow.md. Make RELEASING
verification fail-closed (set -euo pipefail, assert archive present)
and portable (sha256sum or shasum -a 256; drop --ignore-missing).

Signed-off-by: Rohit Rajani <rorajani@nvidia.com>
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Scope Helm folder contents vs Argo CD in data-flow.md. Make RELEASING
verification fail-closed (set -euo pipefail, assert archive present)
and portable (sha256sum or shasum -a 256; drop --ignore-missing).

Signed-off-by: Rohit Rajani <rorajani@nvidia.com>
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Force-pushed (still draft, --force-with-lease): 09c0afa66bf6b212.

Rebased onto main (branch was 5 behind; the merge gate requires up-to-date) and dropped the two empty ci: retrigger commits that only existed to work around GitHub API 503 flakes. No content change — git range-diff shows both real commits replayed identically (=), and the diff against main is byte-for-byte the same (77 insertions, 23 deletions across RELEASING.md, docs/integrator/data-flow.md, docs/integrator/openshift.md).

Both CodeRabbit threads were already resolved before this rewrite, so no live inline anchors were outdated.

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Blocking on the Cosign example: the newly pinned index digest does not carry the requested SPDX predicate, so the documented command fails against the current release.

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--certificate-oidc-issuer https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com \
--certificate-identity-regexp '^https://github\.com/NVIDIA/aicr/\.github/workflows/attest-images\.yaml@refs/tags/.+$' \
ghcr.io/nvidia/aicr:${TAG}
"ghcr.io/nvidia/aicr@${DIGEST}"

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[P1] Verify the attestation type attached to this digest

resolve aicr returns the multi-architecture index digest. AICR attaches each spdxjson SBOM attestation to a per-platform child manifest, while the index carries SLSA provenance and OpenVEX. I ran this exact command against the current v0.19.0 release and it fails with none of the attestations matched the predicate type: spdxjson; the available index predicates are OpenVEX and SLSA v1. Either verify slsaprovenance1 (or https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1) on this index digest, which succeeds, or resolve a child with crane digest --platform ... before verifying spdxjson. As written, the release guide Cosign check cannot succeed.

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Confirmed and fixed in 3398f0dc — thanks, you were right on both counts. I reproduced your failure against v0.19.0 before changing anything:

$ cosign verify-attestation --type spdxjson ... ghcr.io/nvidia/aicr@sha256:b06e0bf...
Error: none of the attestations matched the predicate type: spdxjson,
found: https://openvex.dev/ns,https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

What changed: the Cosign example now verifies slsaprovenance1 and openvex against the index digest, and resolves the per-platform child with crane digest --platform before verifying spdxjson. A table above the block maps each predicate to the digest level it attaches to, so the next reader doesn't have to rediscover the split.

Verification — I ran the documented block verbatim (extracted straight out of RELEASING.md) against the live v0.19.0 release; it exits 0, and all six controls behave:

Check Digest Want Got
slsaprovenance1 index pass pass
openvex index pass pass
spdxjson child pass pass
spdxjson index fail fail (rc=1)
slsaprovenance1 child fail fail (rc=1)
bad signer identity both fail fail (rc=1)

Worth noting the third negative: slsaprovenance1 fails on the child too, so the split really is strict in both directions rather than the index being a superset.

Two adjacent things I checked while in here:

  • The gh attestation verify lines are fine as digest-pinned — 1 attestation verified against the index, and a bogus --source-ref fails closed (expected SourceRepositoryRef to be refs/tags/v0.0.0-bogus). They print nothing on success in a non-TTY, which is why they looked suspiciously quiet.
  • Both blocks now resolve TAG with gh release view instead of an anonymous curl to api.github.com. That call returned 403 for me on the first end-to-end run (rate limited); the block already requires an authenticated gh, so this drops a failure mode without adding a dependency. Shout if you'd rather keep curl and I'll revert that part.

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In `@RELEASING.md`:
- Around line 262-270: Update every Cosign verification command in the release
verification instructions, including both attestation checks and the SBOM check,
to pass --certificate-github-workflow-ref with refs/tags/${TAG}; keep the
existing certificate identity filtering and selected-release behavior unchanged.
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Multi-persona review (supply-chain/Sigstore · shell-robustness/CI-DX · domain-correctness+docs), each finding re-derived against the resolved source at head 3398f0dc. Docs-only, +103/−25.

Legend: 🔴 Blocker · 🟠 Major · 🟡 Minor · 🔵 Nitpick

Standing-review status

  • The CHANGES_REQUESTED on the Cosign spdxjson-vs-index-digest issue is already addressed in head 3398f0dc — the new predicate→digest-level table + per-platform child-manifest spdxjson verification is exactly that fix. I reproduced the mapping against the code and it's correct; this PR isn't blocked on substance anymore and just needs a re-review/dismissal.
  • One CodeRabbit inline is still open (--certificate-github-workflow-ref) — surfaced as the 🟠 inline below.

Overall assessment

Tight, factually accurate drift fix. Every code claim checks out against source — the SortComponentRefsByDeploymentOrder rename (old name has 0 tree hits), the NNN-/localformat-vs-flux-unnumbered layout (including the non-obvious helmfile case, which goes through localformat and emits its own helmfile.yaml), the readiness.yaml/--readiness-hooks OpenShift rename, and the goreleaser archive/checksum naming (aicr_${TAG#v}_${os}_${arch}.tar.gz matches the template exactly). The rewritten verification scripts are shell-mechanically sound and fail closed.

Recommendation: Approve with comments. The one item worth addressing before merge is the 🟠 below (open bot flag, fail-open direction); the rest is optional.

🟡 Minor (optional — design docs are out of this PR's declared scope)

docs/design/014-ocp-helm.md line 82 still shows check-job.yaml — the same drift this PR fixes in openshift.md. It's contradicted by the code (readinessManifestKey = "readiness.yaml") and inconsistent with that file's own later tree (line 132 already says readiness.yaml). You explicitly scoped ADRs/design docs out, so this is take-it-or-leave-it — noting it only because it's a one-line change identical to the fix you're already shipping and would fully close the drift.

Confirmed non-issues (examined, cleared)

  • grep substring collision with SBOM lines — a persona flagged that grep -F " ${archive}" might also match an SBOM checksum line. Refuted: goreleaser names SBOMs aicr_<ver>_<os>_<arch>.sbom.json (no .tar.gz), so the archive pattern matches exactly one line.
  • Archive/checksum naming, all fail-closed guards (set -euo pipefail, [[ -s ]], no --ignore-missing, sha256sum/shasum fallback), and crane digest --platform host-arch mapping — all correct.
  • Every deployer-layout and OpenShift claim verified against pkg/bundler/...; the #deployment-ordering inbound anchor resolves; no heading renamed; no style/TOC violations.

Summary

🔴 Blocker 0 · 🟠 Major 1 · 🟡 Minor 1 · 🔵 Nitpick 1 — Approve with comments

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Appended e32d3fb2 (no force-push).

Addresses @njhensley's Cosign tag-binding finding (and the matching CodeRabbit note): every cosign verify-attestation now includes --certificate-github-workflow-ref "refs/tags/${TAG}", and crane digests are resolved into variables before the gh calls. Smoke-tested the documented Cosign block against live v0.19.0 (index SLSA/OpenVEX + child SPDX pass; bogus tag ref fails).

@mchmarny — your P1 on predicate/digest level was already fixed in 3398f0dc; this commit is the remaining review feedback. Re-requesting review.

Correct data-flow ordering helper name and scope NNN layouts to
localformat-backed deployers (flux stays unnumbered). Fix OpenShift
readiness tree to templates/readiness.yaml. Make RELEASING attestation
examples digest-pinned and download binaries before sha256sum -c.

Signed-off-by: Rohit Rajani <rorajani@nvidia.com>
Scope Helm folder contents vs Argo CD in data-flow.md. Make RELEASING
verification fail-closed (set -euo pipefail, assert archive present)
and portable (sha256sum or shasum -a 256; drop --ignore-missing).

Signed-off-by: Rohit Rajani <rorajani@nvidia.com>
The documented spdxjson check ran against the multi-arch index digest,
which carries only SLSA provenance and OpenVEX, so it failed with "none
of the attestations matched the predicate type". Verify provenance and
OpenVEX on the index and the SBOM on the per-platform child manifest,
and add a table mapping each predicate to the digest it attaches to.

Resolve TAG with gh instead of an anonymous api.github.com call, which
returns 403 once the caller is rate limited; the block already requires
an authenticated gh.

Signed-off-by: Rohit Rajani <rorajani@nvidia.com>
Bind each cosign verify-attestation call with
--certificate-github-workflow-ref refs/tags/${TAG} so a tag rewritten to
an older digest cannot pass on another tag's attestation. Resolve crane
digests into variables before gh attestation verify so crane failures
are not attributed to gh.

Signed-off-by: Rohit Rajani <rorajani@nvidia.com>
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Force-pushed: rebased onto origin/maine32d3fb2387ea8d8.

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In `@RELEASING.md`:
- Around line 285-286: Update the AICR_CHILD resolution in the release
verification flow to derive the child manifest from the already pinned
AICR_INDEX rather than querying the mutable TAG again. Preserve the platform
selection and ensure the SBOM check uses a child belonging to the same pinned
multi-platform index as the provenance and OpenVEX checks.
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Re-review (delta) — re-checked against head 387ea8d8 after the 4 fix commits. Both items from my prior pass are resolved; verified against the resolved code. No net-new issues in the fix commits.

Prior-feedback status

# Prior finding Status Where
🟠 F1 Cosign identity regexp @refs/tags/.+$ didn't bind the attestation to ${TAG} — weaker than the sibling gh path (rollback/downgrade acceptance) ✔️ Addressed 387ea8d8 adds --certificate-github-workflow-ref "refs/tags/${TAG}" to all three cosign verify-attestation calls (the slsaprovenance1/openvex loop and the spdxjson call), with an inline comment spelling out the exact rewritten-tag attack. --certificate-github-workflow-ref is the correct flag and refs/tags/${TAG} is the ref attest-images.yaml runs on, so the Cosign path now binds to the same tag as --source-ref.
🔵 F3 Inline $(resolve X) attributed a crane failure to the later gh step ✔️ Addressed The resolve() helper is gone; every digest is pre-resolved into a named var (AICR_INDEX=$(crane digest …), …) up front, so a missing image / crane failure aborts at that assignment under set -e. Matches the suggested fix.
🟡 F2 Twin drift: check-job.yaml still stale at docs/design/014-ocp-helm.md:82 ✖️ Not addressed (intentional) Still present on head 387ea8d8. This was flagged as optional and the PR explicitly scopes ADRs/design docs out — noting only so it isn't lost; fine to leave for a separate pass.

Net verdict

The RELEASING.md verification block is now correct and hardened; data-flow.md and openshift.md are unchanged since my prior pass and were already all-verified. From my review's standpoint there are no remaining blockers or majors.

⚠️ Process note (not a code issue): reviewDecision is still CHANGES_REQUESTED@mchmarny's blocking review (from an earlier SHA) was not auto-dismissed by the pushes even though its substance (the spdxjson-vs-index-digest failure) is now fixed. It needs a re-review or dismissal to unblock. The branch is also BEHIND main, so a git rebase origin/main is required before it can merge.

Summary

🔴 0 · 🟠 0 · 🟡 0 (1 prior 🟡 intentionally out-of-scope) · 🔵 0 — prior findings resolved.

Resolve AICR_CHILD from ghcr.io/nvidia/aicr@${AICR_INDEX} instead of
re-reading the mutable tag, so the SPDX check targets a child of the
same index the SLSA/OpenVEX checks already verified.

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Appended 7eb194cf (no force-push): resolve AICR_CHILD from the pinned AICR_INDEX so the SPDX check cannot drift onto a different multi-arch index if the tag moves mid-script.

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