GitHub has introduced Artifact Attestations to enhance security and traceability in cloud-native deployments by ensuring that what is deployed can be traced back to its source code. This feature, now generally available, allows organizations to create provenance and integrity guarantees for any type of artifact, such as executables, packages, and container images, meeting SLSA v1.0 Build Level 2 compliance requirements. The blog post provides a detailed guide on configuring GitHub Actions workflows to incorporate Artifact Attestations, including customizing inputs and verifying builds using Kubernetes admission controllers. It emphasizes the importance of validating Kubernetes clusters and images to ensure they are free from security vulnerabilities and have followed approved processes. GitHub offers Helm charts for installing Sigstore policy controllers and setting up trust policies, ensuring that only verified, signed images are deployed. This initiative aims to provide software engineers and end-users with confidence in the security of their supply chain, aligning with modern DevOps practices.