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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2019
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Nisha Kumar-Mayernik, Tualatin, OR (US);
Malini Bhandaru, San Jose, CA (US);
John Hawley, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Darren Hart, Portland, OR (US);
Tim Pepper, Tigard, OR (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and computer-implemented method for container provenance tracking uses a build instruction file of a container image to output a new provenance document associated with the container image for distribution. For each file system layer of the container image specified in the build instruction file, an existing provenance document for the file system layer is inserted into the new provenance document. If there is no existing provenance document, information about each software component included in the file system layer is retrieved and inserted into the new provenance document.