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,…
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…
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.
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 environments through…
eWeek: "CNCF expands cloud security capabilities with SPIFFE, OPA projects"
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced on March 29 that it is adding the Open Policy Agent (OPA) and the Secure Production Identity Framework for Everyone (SPIFFE) projects to its hosted projects roster. .
CNCF to host the SPIFFE Project
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation accepted SPIFFE into the CNCF Sandbox, a home for early stage and evolving cloud native projects. Also known as the Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone, the SPIFFE project is an open-source…
Cloud Native Now: “CNCF and Tetrate Branch Out to Offer Istio Certification”
If you think about the interconnections among them, the cloud-native ecosystem of projects can resemble natural systems. Established CNCF projects such as Kubernetes, Envoy, gRPC, Prometheus and SPIFFE comprise a strong root system of modern cloud-native projects. Service…