spiffe/spire
The SPIFFE Runtime Environment
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 7 days ago, with 252 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #75 in the weekly ranking the week of Mar 29, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a runtime environment to establish secure trust between software systems using SPIFFE standards.
- Enables workload identity attestation and issuance of cryptographic identities across diverse platforms for seamless mutual authentication.
- Use for implementing workload identity and secure service-to-service authentication in microservices architectures.
- Use for integrating with Envoy Proxy to automate TLS certificate management via SPIRE's Secret Discovery Service.
- Use for securely authenticating workloads to secret stores, databases, or cloud services using SPIFFE-issued identities.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
SPIRE (the SPIFFE Runtime Environment) is a toolchain of APIs for establishing trust between software systems across a wide variety of hosting platforms. SPIRE exposes the SPIFFE Workload API, which can attest running software systems and issue SPIFFE IDs and SVIDs to them. This in turn allows two workloads to establish trust between each other, for example by establishing an mTLS connection or by signing and verifying a JWT token. SPIRE can also enable workloads to securely authenticate to a secret store, a database, or a cloud provider service.
SPIRE is a graduated project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). If you are an organization that wants to help shape the evolution of technologies that are container-packaged, dynamically-scheduled and microservices-oriented, consider joining the CNCF.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
688+51
Open issues
115-16
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| microsoft/VibeVoice | 56.0K | +1.1K | 29 | — |
| spiffe/spire | 2.6K | — | 65 | 7 days ago |
| Category median | 56.0K | +2.3K | 29 | — |
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