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The SPIFFE Project

About SPIFFE

The Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone (SPIFFE) Project defines a framework and set of standards for identifying and securing communications between web-based services. At its heart, SPIFFE is:

• A standard defining how services identify themselves to each other. These are called SPIFFE IDs and are implemented as Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs).

• A standard for encoding SPIFFE IDs in a cryptographically-verifiable document called a SPIFFE Verifiable Identity Document or SVIDs.

• An API specification for issuing and/or retrieving SVIDs. This is the Workload API.

The SPIFFE Project is also producing a reference implementation that, in addition to the above, will:

• Perform node and workload attestation.
• Implement a signing framework for securely issuing and renewing SVIDs.
• Provide an API for registering nodes and workloads, along with their designated SPIFFE IDs.

SPIFFE is hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a sandbox level project. 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. For details read the CNCF announcement.

SPIFFE Standards

• Secure Production Infrastructure Framework for Everyone (SPIFFE)
• The SPIFFE Identity and Verifiable Identity Document
• The X.509 SPIFFE Verifiable Identity Document
• The JWT SPIFFE Verifiable Identity Document
• The SPIFFE Workload Endpoint
• The SPIFFE Workload API

Getting Started

• spiffe: This repository includes the SPIFFE ID, SVID and Workload API specifications, example code, and tests, as well as project governance, policies, and processes.
• spire: This is a reference implementation of SPIFFE and the SPIFFE Workload API that can be run on and across varying hosting environments.
• go-spiffe: Golang client libraries.

Communications

• Slack (Join here).
• [email protected] (View or join here).
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Contribute

• CONTRIBUTING
• GOVERNANCE

SIGs & Working Groups

Most community activity is organized into Special Interest Groups (SIGs), time-bounded working groups, and our monthly community-wide meetings. SIGs follow these guidelines, although each may operate differently depending on their needs and workflows. Each group's material can be found in the /sigs directory of this repository.

Name	Leads	Group	Slack Channel	Meetings
Components	Oliver Liu (Google, Inc.)	Here	Here	Notes
Integration: AWS	Jon Debonis (Blend, Inc.)	Here	Here	Notes
Integration: gRPC	Lizan Zhou (Google, Inc.)	Here	Here	Notes
Integration: Kubernetes	Vipin Jain (Pensando, Inc.) & Tao Li (Google, Inc.)	Here	Here	Notes
Specification	Evan Gilman (Scytale, Inc.)	Here	Here	Notes

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