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Sign Code with GitHub Actions and SignServer

In just a few steps, you can connect SignServer to GitHub Actions and add a signing step to your GitHub workflows. This ensures your code is securely signed and trusted throughout development. Try it out today and streamline your security process.

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About GitHub Actions and SignServer

GitHub Actions is a CI/CD automation tool integrated directly into GitHub. It allows you to create workflows that automatically run a sequence of jobs triggered by events in your repository, such as a commit, a pull request, or a release.

Code signing is a must-have security practice. While tools like OpenSSL, etc., are general-purpose cryptography tools, SignServer is a purpose-built software for secure, compliant, and scalable signing operations, making it a better choice for organizations looking for robust code signing solutions.

How to get started

The SignServer integration with GitHub Actions facilitates signing with your chosen SignServer instance and provides a simple integration to add a signing step to your GitHub workflows.  

The tutorial covers these steps: 

  1. Set up SignServer to receive a signing request from a GitHub Action.
  2. Set up a GitHub repository and secrets needed to run the signing action.
  3. Use the SignServer Signing action in a workflow.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, you need the following:

Documentation

Tutorials/documentation

Documentation

Check out the supplementary documentation that goes hand-in-hand with our tutorial video.

Docker Hub

Get your hands on the SignServer Docker container by downloading it now from Docker Hub. 

GitHub Marketplace

You will find the SignServer Signing action on the GitHub Marketplace.

YouTube

You can watch the tutorial video on YouTube along with a few other videos here.

Discussions

You can ask your questions and learn from PKI and signing specialists in the SignServer forum on GitHub Discussions.

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