Topic: spiffe
ITOps Open-Source Project of the Week: Spiffe and Spire
Spiffe and Spire is an open-source universal identity control plane for distributed systems. It allows users to secure microservices communication automatically with Envoy, X.509, or JWT. Spiffe is a Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone which works to offer a secure identity to every workload in a modern production environment. It also removes the need … continue reading
SPIFFE and SPIRE projects graduate from CNCF Incubator
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that SPIFFE and SPIRE are now graduated projects. Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone (SPIFFE) provides a secure identity to workloads in modern production environments and SPIRE (the SPIFFE Runtime Environment) is the code that implements the SPIFFE specification on a wide variety of platforms. SPIRE exposes the … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of Week: SPIFFE
SPIFFE stands for the Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone. The project aims to define a framework and standards for identifying and securing communications between app services. According to its GitHub page, SPIFFE includes SPIFFE IDs implemented as Uniform Resource Identifiers. This defines how services services identify themselves to one another SPIFFE Verifiable Identity Document … continue reading
