Cloud Native Live: Beyond Kubernetes with Linkerd 2.15 and SPIFFE
Linkerd has long been a staple of security, reliability, and observability in Kubernetes, and Linkerd 2.15 can extend these benefits beyond the cluster! We’re seeing an increasing need for communication between cloud-native applications and workloads outside the cluster,…
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 native software,…
Production Identity Day: SPIFFE + SPIRE North America 2021
We are excited to host the second Production Identity Day at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America to share learnings around the latest developments in the space, exhibit demonstrations, and discuss real-world use cases with others who share an…
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, and given…
SPIFFE and SPIRE are CNCF projects that help organizations build secure zero-trust environments. SPIFFE is an open standard that will help you create a foundation for zero-trust based systems based on cryptographic identity, while SPIRE is an implementation…
ITOps Times: “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.
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 on from…
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 linked.
DevOps.com: "CNCF elevates SPIFFE spec to secure app services"
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that the open source Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone (SPIFFE) specification and the SPIFFE Runtime Environment (SPIRE) have become incubation-level hosted projects.