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title: 'Episode 174 : Verifying Signed Images with Connaisseur'

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# Episode 174 : Verifying Signed Images with Connaisseur 

- Hosted by Pushkar Joglekar [\@PuDiJoglekar](http://twitter.com/PuDiJoglekar)
- Guests: Christoph Hamsen [\@xophham](https://twitter.com/xophham)
- Recording date: 2021-11-19 5 PM GMT / 9 AM PST

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Join Pushkar with Christoph from SSE - Secure Systems Engineering GmbH, as we explore, why having signed images only is not enough. But having a way to verify them is equally important. In this episode, we will explore connaisseur project that acts as an admission controller to verify signed images at deployment time. 

## Table of Contents
- 00:00:00 - Welcome to TGIK + Guest Intro!
- 00:04:20 - Week in Review
- 00:09:12 - Origin Story of Connaisseur
- 00:22:10 - Cloning Connaisseur Github repo
- 00:25:00 - Install Connaisseur with Helm
- 00:33:00 - Create kind cluster
- 00:38:00 - Deploy Hello World image pod
- 00:45:00 - Deploy unsigned image
- 00:50:00 - Deploy signed image
- 01:05:00 - Deep dive into Connaisseur Configuration File
- 01:32:00 - Discussing Threats and potential Open source contributions
- 00:48:00 - Debugging `apiserver` failing to come up after flag change
  * This resolved after the episode; every second server start worked, so changing some other pod value got it working
- 00:59:00 - Trying again with `kind`
- 01:02:00 - `kind` times out
- 01:02:00 - Pod Security Standards -- how they came to be, what's in them
- 01:10:00 - Audit and Warn settings
- 01:16:00 - Versioning Pod Security Standards
- 01:20:00 - Discussion on how to [move towards secure-by-default](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y1OCgto48Woc0UsZHq7zHuYOFGYI_DTpC2o7k7KYeaA/edit#)
- 01:22:00 - `dry-run` on increasing security levels
- 01:30:00 - Wrapping up

## Week in Review
* *Kubernetes v1.23* is almost there - Code freeze is now ongoing, so only patches and PRs that blocks releases will be accepted!
* November Kubernetes patch releases are out! - https://twitter.com/puerco/status/1461176447742226440?s=20
* Go v1.18 is almost there, and this cool [Twitter thread](https://twitter.com/mvdan_/status/1456947756925399040?s=12) covers A LOT of the new stuff: fuzzing, generics, and even a new net/netip package and a new strings/bytes.Cut()
* Gatekeeper 3.7.0 was [released](https://github.com/open-policy-agent/gatekeeper/releases/tag/v3.7.0) with a bunch of new features: Mutation moved to Beta (yeey), and a new CLI (alpha) so you can test constraints and constrainttemplates without Kubernetes
* Dockershim is deprecated and marked for removal in v1.24 and SIG-Node is collecting some feedback - https://kubernetes.io/blog/2021/11/12/are-you-ready-for-dockershim-removal/
* Pod Security Admission moving to Beta and will be enabled by default in v1.23. This tweet has some useful links: https://twitter.com/tallclair/status/1460386502555230216
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## Show Notes
* Introductions
* TGIK schedule: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/tgik
* More APAC / EMEA timezone friendly TGIKs are here!
* What are signatures and how do you verify them?
* Why sign images?
* Why verify images?
* [Connaisseur Repository](https://github.com/sse-secure-systems/connaisseur)
* [Connaisseur Documentation](https://sse-secure-systems.github.io/connaisseur/v2.2.0/)
    * [Quick Start](https://sse-secure-systems.github.io/connaisseur/v2.2.0/#quick-start) provides a simple demo to get started with minimal configuration
    * [Getting Started](https://sse-secure-systems.github.io/connaisseur/v2.2.0/getting_started/) with signing and verifying your first own images
* [Recent Blog Post](https://medium.com/sse-blog/verify-container-image-signatures-in-kubernetes-using-notary-or-cosign-or-both-c25d9e79ec45) on Signature Verification for both, notary and cosign

## Wait there's more!!

- TGIK will have its first ever double header. Next session is happening today, on regularly scheduled time 1pm PST: tgik.io/175

