SPIFFE and SPIRE Projects Graduate from Cloud Native Computing Foundation Incubator
Projects are used by leading cloud native companies including Bloomberg, ByteDance, Pinterest, and Twilio, among others San Francisco, CA – September 20, 2022 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud…
Project post originally published on the SPIRE blog by the SPIRE maintainers At its heart, the SPIRE project aims to solve the problem of securely issuing workload identities at scale, no matter where the workload is…
Open sourcing the SPIFFE/SPIRE security audit
A few years back, CNCF began performing and open sourcing third-party security audits for projects to improve the overall security of our ecosystem. These audits have helped identify security issues, from general weaknesses to critical vulnerabilities,…
The New Stack: "Kubernetes authentication ‘solved’: SPIFFE/SPIRE move to CNCF Incubation"
It’s been just over two years now since the SPIFFE (Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone) and SPIRE (the SPIFFE Runtime Environment) projects joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), and now the projects have moved…
DevClass: "CNCF plants SPIFFE and SPIRE into its incubator, looks to grow secure cloud projects"
Linux Foundation subsidiary Cloud Native Computing Foundation has promoted security projects SPIFFE and SPIRE into its incubator, where they join the likes of container runtime cri-o, registry Harbor, Argo, the Open Policy Agent, and service mesh…
TOC Approves SPIFFE and SPIRE to Incubation
Today, the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept SPIFFE and SPIRE as incubation-level hosted projects. The SPIFFE (Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone) specification defines a standard to authenticate software services in cloud native…
Prometheus user profile: L’Atelier Animation experiences inspired studio monitoring with Prometheus
Founded in Montreal in 2012, L’Atelier Animation is an animation studio that specializes in the creation of 3D feature films and television series; including Ballerina, RoboZuna, and The Bravest. With an infrastructure consisting of around 300 render blades,…
Diversity scholarship series: Inspired by Kubernetes and its community
CNCF offered six diversity scholarships to developers to attend CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017. In this post, our scholarship recipient Kim Lehtinen, second-year student at University of Vaasa in Finland, shares his experience attending sessions and…
My Journey to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024: A Story of Volunteering and Growth
My name is Oscar Ayra and I am from Lima, Peru. In 2024, I had the privilege of being part of the volunteer team at Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) Lima. It was an enriching experience where…
A Farewell from Priyanka Sharma, Executive Director of CNCF
After five extraordinary years, I’m stepping down from my role as Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. A Journey of Growth and Impact Leading CNCF has been the honor of a lifetime. I joined…