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href="#for-software-producers">For software producers</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div> </aside> <div class="content main-content"> <p>This is a quick-start guide for organizations that want to adopt SLSA. Your organization has two major responsibilities: choosing a target SLSA level for your organization, and selecting tools that support your desired SLSA level.</p> <h2 id="choosing-your-slsa-level">Choosing your SLSA level</h2> <p>For all <a href="/spec/v1.0/levels">SLSA levels</a>, you follow the same steps:</p> <ol> <li>Generate provenance, i.e., document your build process</li> <li>Make the provenance available, to allow downstream users to verify it</li> </ol> <p>What differs for each level is the robustness of the build and provenance. For more information about SLSA provenance see <a href="/provenance/v1">https://slsa.dev/provenance/</a>.</p> <p>SLSA Build levels are progressive: SLSA Build L3 includes all the guarantees of SLSA Build L2, and SLSA Build L2 includes all the guarantees of SLSA Build L1. Currently, though, the work required to achieve lower SLSA levels will not necessarily accrue toward the work needed for higher levels, because achieving a higher level may require migrating to a different build platform altogether. For that reason, you should set a target level for your project or organization to work towards and choose a build platform which supports the target level, so as to avoid wasted work.</p> <p><a id="tooling"></a></p> <h2 id="choose-appropriate-tools">Choose appropriate tools</h2> <p>Your organization’s tooling needs depend on what role your organization plays in the software supply chain. Organizations can be software producers, software consumers, or both. In practice, most organizations that produce software also consume software.</p> <h3 id="for-software-consumers">For software consumers</h3> <p>As a software consumer, you need to verify that the software you consume meets your chosen SLSA Build level.</p> <p>Ideally, <a href="/spec/v1.0/terminology#package-model">package ecosystems</a> verify SLSA provenance for the packages they distribute. Check with the package ecosystem where you get software to see if they verify SLSA provenance. If they do, then inspect its verification practices to ensure that they meet your needs. If they do not, then you may want to request that they add SLSA support.</p> <p>Regardless of whether your package ecosystem verifies SLSA provenance, you may wish to verify SLSA provenance yourself using tools such as <a href="https://github.com/slsa-framework/slsa-verifier"><code>slsa-verifier</code></a>.</p> <p>To learn more about the verification process, see <a href="/spec/v1.0/verifying-artifacts">Verifying Artifacts</a>.</p> <h3 id="for-software-producers">For software producers</h3> <p>As a software producer, you need to follow the requirements for your target Build level. You also need to produce and distribute attestations that demonstrate your software meets your desired SLSA Build level. SLSA recommends either the <a href="/provenance/">SLSA provenance format</a> or, if you wish to keep the details of your build pipeline confidential, a <a href="/verification_summary/">SLSA Verification Summary Attestation (VSA)</a> although the SLSA specification allows for other formats.</p> <p>Ideally, build platforms produce SLSA provenance rather than individual developers. If your organization…</p> <ul> <li>does not use a build platform, then consider adopting one that supports SLSA.</li> <li>uses a third-party build platform, then check with its provider to see if they support generating SLSA provenance at your desired level. If they do, then follow their instructions for producing provenance. If they do not, then consider requesting that they add SLSA support or adopting a tool that does support SLSA.</li> <li>maintains its own build platform, then add support for generating SLSA provenance.</li> </ul> <p>For more information about producing provenance, see <a href="/spec/v1.0/requirements">Producing artifact</a> and <a href="/spec/v1.0/verifying-systems">Verifying build platforms</a>.</p> <p>Ideally, <a href="/spec/v1.0/terminology#package-model">package ecosystems</a> distribute provenance alongside packages. If your organization…</p> <ul> <li>distributes software through a third-party package ecosystem, then check with its provider to see if they support distributing SLSA provenance. If they do, then follow their instructions for distributing provenance. If they do not, then consider requesting that they add SLSA support or using a package ecosystem that does support SLSA.</li> <li>distributes software itself (e.g. directly to consumers), then add SLSA provenance to your set of package artifacts.</li> </ul> <p>For more information about distributing provenance, see <a href="/spec/v1.0/distributing-provenance">Distributing provenance</a>.</p> </div> </div> </main><footer class="site-footer flex-none h-card text-white"> <div class="site-clamp py-4 flex flex-wrap items-start justify-between w-full"> <div class="w-full md:w-1/3 mb-8 md:mb-0"> <p><strong>SLSA is a cross-industry collaboration.</strong><br> © 2024 The Linux Foundation, under the terms of the <a href="https://github.com/slsa-framework/governance">Community Specification License 1.0</a></p> </div> <div class="w-full md:w-1/3 mb-8 md:mb-0"> <p><strong>Privacy statement</strong><br> We use <a href="https://goatcounter.com">GoatCounter</a> to help us improve our website by collecting and reporting information on how it's used. 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