Customer-authored pull policies need to be strict enough to protect installs and clear enough to trust.
Platform security engineers need enforceable evidence, while application teams need to know which image pulls will be interrupted.
Who you’d be doing this for
“I’ve got a rule ready, but nobody can tell me which release it will block.”
Kenza Yazdani · Platform Security Engineer
Owns image approval controls for a regulated organization running Kubernetes workloads.
What is at stake
Pilot customers cannot predict which signed image pulls their new policies will deny. You must weigh enforceable supply-chain controls against release flows that need understandable outcomes.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- strict policy enforcement vs predictable image pulls
- customer explanations vs authoritative evidence
- pilot learning vs scanner-path stability
- faster product scope vs reusable policy capability
Why Chainguard
Signed images, attestations, SBOMs, scanner verdicts, and customer-managed pull policies meet at the container registry boundary.
Written with these in mind
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