SPIRE

What is SPIRE?

SPIRE (the SPIFFE Runtime Environment) is a toolchain of APIs for establishing trust between software systems across a wide variety of hosting platforms. SPIRE exposes the SPIFFE Workload API, which can attest running software systems and issue SPIFFE IDs and SVIDs to them. This in turn allows two workloads to establish trust between each other, for example by establishing an mTLS connection or by signing and verifying a JWT token. SPIRE can also enable workloads to securely authenticate to a secret store, a database, or a cloud provider service.

 

The entire lifecycle of SPIRE

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of SPIRE. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.

Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product SPIRE (SPIRE)

 

Facts and figures about SPIRE

 

 

Keywords

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Application

 

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Long-term support

 

LTS

 

Vulnerabilities

 

Common vulnerabilities & exposures

 

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