To install sops, download one of the pre-built binaries provided for your platform from the artifacts attached to this release.
For instance, if you are using Linux on an AMD64 architecture:
### Download the binarycurl -LO https://github.com/getsops/sops/releases/download/v3.8.1/sops-v3.8.1.linux.amd64### Move the binary in to your PATHmv sops-v3.8.1.linux.amd64 /usr/local/bin/sops### Make the binary executablechmod +x /usr/local/bin/sops
Verify checksums file signature
The checksums file provided within the artifacts attached to this release is signed using Cosign with GitHub OIDC. To validate the signature of this file, run the following commands:
### Download the checksums file, certificate and signaturecurl -LO https://github.com/getsops/sops/releases/download/v3.8.1/sops-v3.8.1.checksums.txtcurl -LO https://github.com/getsops/sops/releases/download/v3.8.1/sops-v3.8.1.checksums.pemcurl -LO https://github.com/getsops/sops/releases/download/v3.8.1/sops-v3.8.1.checksums.sig### Verify the checksums filecosign verify-blob sops-v3.8.1.checksums.txt \--certificate sops-v3.8.1.checksums.pem \--signature sops-v3.8.1.checksums.sig \--certificate-identity-regexp=https://github.com/getsops \--certificate-oidc-issuer=https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com
Verify binary integrity
To verify the integrity of the downloaded binary, you can utilize the checksums file after having validated its signature:
### Verify the binary using the checksums filesha256sum-c sops-v3.8.1.checksums.txt --ignore-missing
Verify artifact provenance
The SLSA provenance of the binaries, packages, and SBOMs can be found within the artifacts associated with this release. It is presented through an in-toto link metadata file named sops-v3.8.1.intoto.jsonl. To verify the provenance of an artifact, you can utilize the slsa-verifier tool:
### Download the metadata filecurl -LO https://github.com/getsops/sops/releases/download/v3.8.1/sops-v3.8.1.intoto.jsonl### Verify the provenance of the artifactslsa-verifier verify-artifact <artifact> \--provenance-path sops-v3.8.1.intoto.jsonl \--source-uri github.com/getsops/sops \--source-tag v3.8.1
Container Images
The sops binaries are also available as container images, based on Debian (slim) and Alpine Linux. The Debian-based container images include any dependencies which may be required to make use of certain key services, such as GnuPG, AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault, and Google Cloud KMS. The Alpine-based container images are smaller in size, but do not include these dependencies.
These container images are available for the following architectures: linux/amd64 and linux/arm64.
GitHub Container Registry
ghcr.io/getsops/sops:v3.8.1
ghcr.io/getsops/sops:v3.8.1-alpine
Quay.io
quay.io/getsops/sops:v3.8.1
quay.io/getsops/sops:v3.8.1-alpine
Verify container image signature
The container images are signed using Cosign with GitHub OIDC. To validate the signature of an image, run the following command:
cosign verify ghcr.io/getsops/sops:v3.8.1 \--certificate-identity-regexp=https://github.com/getsops \--certificate-oidc-issuer=https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com \-o text
The Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for each binary is accessible within the artifacts enclosed with this release. It is presented as an SPDX JSON file, formatted as <binary>.spdx.sbom.json.
