SOPS, Checked, And Not Phoning Home
sops on EL 10 from the GitHub release, refused by Ansible's get_url unless its SHA-256 is the one in the project's checksums file, and re-checked with sha256sum -c by the live test. sops --version asks GitHub for newer releases unless told not to; the live test says not to, then decrypts a file that was never encrypted and expects 'sops metadata not found'. Original role, live-tested on Rocky 10.
Verification
Live-testedReally deployed to a container sandbox, proven idempotent (a second run changes nothing), verified against the role’s assertions, then torn down.
Conformance
- Static validation (yamllint · ansible-lint)
Provenance
- SHA-256 checksum
- Signature (pending)
Functional
- Live-tested - applied, verified, destroyed
Last verified 2026-09-20 · podman 4.9.3 · ansible 2.21.4 · how we verify
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Documentation
sops
SOPS (CNCF) sops on EL 10 from the vendor's release, checked against the
published SHA-256, pinned to a version, installed as root's binary
in /usr/local/bin. Original role for EL 10, live-tested with podman on
Rocky Linux 10.
No package worth the name. EL 10 carries no sops, and a
third-party repository is one more key to trust. This role takes the
release from github.com/getsops/sops, has Ansible's get_url refuse the asset unless
its SHA-256 is the published one, and the live test checks the asset on
disk against the same published value again.
Pinned. sops_version is what gets installed, kept in a directory
of its own so the checksum file and the asset it names stay together. A
newer release is a variable change and a run; the same version is
changed=0.
Proven to run. The live test runs sops --decrypt /usr/local/src/sops-plain.yaml and expects
"sops metadata not found" - the binary ran all the way to the point where it
needed something this host does not have.
sops --version phones home. It asks GitHub whether a newer
release exists and prints "(latest)" when there is none; the live test
passes --disable-version-check, and so should any pipeline that must
not reach out. The role installs the binary only: keys (age, PGP, KMS)
and .sops.yaml creation rules are per repository. Decrypting a file that
was never encrypted stops at "sops metadata not found", the live test's
proof that the binary parsed the file and looked for its metadata.
License
Commercial - IaC Bazaar EULA. (c) IaC Bazaar.
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