The Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone (SPIFFE) Project defines a framework and set of standards for identifying and securing communications between application services. At its core, 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 has a reference implementation, the SPIRE (the SPIFFE Runtime Environment), that in addition to the above, it:

• Performs node and workload attestation.

• Implements a signing framework for securely issuing and renewing SVIDs.

• Provides an API for registering nodes and workloads, along with their designated SPIFFE IDs.

• Provides and manages the rotation of keys and certs for mutual authentication and encryption between workloads.

• Simplifies access from identified services to secret stores, databases, services meshes and cloud provider services.

• Interoperability and federation to SPIFFE compatible systems across heterogeneous environments and administrative trust boundaries.

SPIFFE 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.

SPIFFE Standards

• Secure Production Identity 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 Trust Domain and Bundle
• The SPIFFE Workload Endpoint
• The SPIFFE Workload API
• SPIFFE Federation

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.
• java-spiffe: Java client libraries

Communications

• Slack (Join here).
• announce@spiffe.io (View or join here).
• dev-discussion@spiffe.io (View or join here).
• user-discussion@spiffe.io (View or join here).

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 /community directory of this repository.

Name	Lead	Group	Slack Channel	Meetings
SIG-Community	Umair Khan (HPE)	Here	Here	Notes
SIG-Spec	Evan Gilman (VMware)	Here	Here	Notes
SIG-SPIRE	Daniel Feldman (HPE)	Here	Here	Notes

Follow the SPIFFE Project You can find us on Github and Twitter.

SPIFFE SSC

The SPIFFE Steering Committee meets on a regular cadence to review project progress, address maintainer needs, and provide feedback on strategic direction and industry trends. Community members interested in joining this call can find details below.

• Calendar: iCal or Browser-based
• Meeting Notes: Google Doc
• Call Details: Zoom Link

To contact the SSC privately, please send an email to ssc@spiffe.io.