SLSA Framework: What is It and How to Gain Visibility

This blog post provides a deep dive into SLSA provenance—what it is, how it secures the software supply chain through artifact authenticity, integrity, and policy enforcement, and how it enables observability and forensics. It explains SLSA’s scope and limitations, details generation approaches for GitHub Actions (using reusable workflows and cosign) and GitLab CI (metadata-only), and shows how to verify provenance with the slsa-verifier CLI and enforce policies with Kyverno. The post positions provenance as a foundation for broader attestations and mentions enterprise-ready options for private, scalable adoption.