The SPIRE project
SPIRE is an open-source toolchain that implements the SPIFFE specification in a wide variety of environments Read more
Secure Production Identity Framework for Everyone
A universal identity control plane for distributed systems
Secure microservices communication automatically with Envoy, X.509 PKI, or JWT
Authenticate securely to common databases or platforms without passwords or API keys
Build, bridge, and extend service mesh across organizations without sharing keys
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What is SPIFFE?
SPIFFE, the Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone, provides a secure identity, in the form of a specially crafted X.509 certificate, to every workload in a modern production environment. SPIFFE removes the need for application-level authentication and complex network-level ACL configuration. • Read more
What is SPIRE?
SPIRE, the SPIFFE Runtime Environment, is an extensible system that implements the principles embodied in the SPIFFE standards. SPIRE manages platform and workload attestation, provides an API for controlling attestation policies, and coordinates certificate issuance and rotation. • Read more
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Who uses SPIFFE?
SPIFFE is currently used by a variety of projects that both issue and consume SPIFFE IDs.
Issuers
HashiCorp Consul
The Consul Connect service mesh uses the SPIFFE specification for establishing service identities, enabling Consul Connect services to connect with other SPIFFE-compliant systems Read more
cert-manager CSI driver
csi-driver-spiffe is a cert-manager project that delivers SPIFFE compliant X.509-SVIDs to Kubernetes Pods using CSI, based on the identity of the mounting ServiceAccount. Read more
Consumers
The Envoy proxy
Customers can use SPIFFE IDs to establish mTLS connections between Envoy proxies Read more
The Ghostunnel proxy
Customers can use SPIFFE IDs to establish mTLS connections between Ghostunnel proxies with built-in support for obtaining X.509-SVID identities via the SPIFFE Workload API Read more
SPIFFE and SPIRE are Cloud Native Computing Foundation incubation projects
