Attestation - CI/CD Glossary Definition
An attestation is a signed claim about an artifact that others can verify.
An attestation is a signed, machine-verifiable statement about an artifact, such as which tests passed or how it was built, that a verifier can check before trusting the artifact.
An attestation is a signed claim about an artifact that others can verify.
In CI
A pipeline can produce signed attestations of provenance and test results, and a deployment gate can require valid attestations before allowing a release.
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