SPIFFE

A little over 10 years ago I wrote the design doc for SPIFFE, a standard for giving workloads cryptographic identities so services can authenticate to each other without passwords. I launched it at a talk at GlueCon that year. This was a unique thing as it was an “open source” project that was just a document. There was no code initially. I almost started a company around it but did Heptio instead. I handed it off to Sunil James who started a company and got it into the CNCF. Sunil and the folks at his company, Scytale, also wrote the companion reference implementation called SPIRE. ...