constellation/docs/versioned_docs/version-2.0/workflows/verify.md

Verify your cluster

Constellation's attestation feature allows you, or a third party, to verify the confidentiality and integrity of your Constellation.

Fetch measurements

To verify the integrity of Constellation you need trusted measurements to verify against. For each of the released images there are signed measurements, which you can download using the CLI:

constellation config fetch-measurements

This command performs the following steps:

1. Look up the signed measurements for the configured image.
2. Download the measurements.
3. Verify the signature.
4. Write measurements into configuration file.

The verify command

Once measurements are configured, this command verifies an attestation statement issued by a Constellation, thereby verifying the integrity and confidentiality of the whole cluster.

The following command performs attestation on the Constellation in your current workspace:

constellation verify

The command makes sure the value passed to -cluster-id matches the clusterID presented in the attestation statement. This allows you to verify that you are connecting to a specific Constellation instance Additionally, the confidential computing capabilities, as well as the VM image, are verified to match the expected configurations.

Custom arguments

You can provide additional arguments for verify to verify any Constellation you have network access to. This requires you to provide:

• The IP address of a running Constellation's VerificationService. The VerificationService is exposed via a NodePort service using the external IP address of your cluster. Run kubectl get nodes -o wide and look for EXTERNAL-IP.
• The Constellation's clusterID. See cluster identity for more details.

constellation verify -e 192.0.2.1 --cluster-id Q29uc3RlbGxhdGlvbkRvY3VtZW50YXRpb25TZWNyZXQ=