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SPIFFE / SPIRE

SPIFFE

Security & cryptoCloud & APIs

WHY YOU NEED THIS

mTLS between microservices at scale uses SPIFFE IDs instead of per-service certificates — CNCF graduated identity standard.

What It Is

Secure Production Identity Framework for Everyone — workload identity (SVID), trust domains, and SPIRE agent/server for zero-trust service authentication.

Taxonomy

By spec: SPIFFE ID · JWT-SVID · X.509-SVID · SPIRE architecture · Federation

Top-Level Categories

SPIFFE specificationSPIRETrust federationJWT-SVIDX.509-SVID

Master Catalog

SPIFFE docs

Sub-Indexes & Guides

SPIFFE spec (GitHub)

Related Registry Sources

spiffespireworkload-identitymtls