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SPIFFE Ecosystem

Official and community projects in the SPIFFE ecosystem

SPIFFE is supported by a broad ecosystem of projects, ranging from the core specifications and their reference implementation through to SDKs, deployment tooling, and the many open-source and commercial platforms that issue or consume SPIFFE identities.

This page collects some of the more notable projects, grouped by what they do. Each one is marked as a SPIFFE official project, a community project, or a commercial offering. The list is not exhaustive - if a project is missing, contributions are welcome via a pull request to this site.

Key: SPIFFE official project Community project Commercial project

SPIRE & Plugins

SPIRE, the reference implementation of SPIFFE, along with the plugins and tooling that extend and operate it.

  • SPIRE - The SPIFFE Runtime Environment - the reference implementation of SPIFFE, handling node and workload attestation and SVID issuance and rotation.
  • SPIRE Controller Manager - Manages SPIRE registration entries and federation relationships from Kubernetes custom resources.
  • SPIRE Hardened Helm Charts - A suite of production-hardened Helm charts for deploying SPIRE on Kubernetes.
  • SPIRE Identity Exchange - Standalone service that allows platform-native tokens, such as GitHub Actions or GitLab OIDC tokens, to be exchanged for SPIRE-issued SVIDs.
  • Tornjak - A management UI that provides visibility and governance across one or more SPIRE deployments.
  • SPIRE TPM Plugin - Agent and server plugins that add TPM 2.0-based node attestation to SPIRE.

SDKs & Libraries

Fetch and validate SPIFFE identities directly from your application code.

Deployment & Workload Helpers

Deliver SPIFFE identities to workloads, and bridge them to platforms that do not speak the Workload API natively.

  • SPIFFE CSI Driver - A Kubernetes CSI driver that exposes the SPIFFE Workload API socket to pods.
  • SPIFFE Helper - Fetches and rotates SVIDs to disk for workloads that cannot call the Workload API themselves.
  • AWS SPIFFE Workload Helper - Exchanges SPIFFE SVIDs for AWS credentials via IAM Roles Anywhere.
  • K8S SPIFFE Workload JWT Exec Auth - Bridges Kubernetes clients to the SPIFFE Workload API for authentication to the Kubernetes API.
  • K8S SPIFFE Workload Auth Config - Injects the SPIFFE trust bundle into the Kubernetes AuthenticationConfiguration file. This allows the Kubernetes API server to read the JWKS from the OIDC discovery provider in cases where it is protected by a SPIFFE-issued certificate.

Secrets Management

Secrets managers that can store secrets and support SPIFFE-authenticated workloads to retrieving them.

  • SPIKE - A SPIFFE-native secrets manage that allows workloads to use SPIFFE authentication to retrieve secrets.
  • VMware Secrets Manager - A Kubernetes-native secrets manager with support for SPIFFE authentication.
  • HashiCorp Vault - Secrets manager with support for SPIFFE authentication.
  • Infisical - Secrets manager with support for SPIFFE authentication.

Service Meshes & Proxies

Service meshes and proxies that use SPIFFE identities to authenticate and secure traffic between workloads.

  • Envoy - Service proxy that can consume SVIDs over the Envoy SDS API to establish mTLS.
  • Istio - Service mesh that issues SPIFFE identities to the workloads in the mesh.
  • Ghostunnel - A TLS proxy that attaches to the SPIFFE Workload API to authenticate connections.
  • HashiCorp Consul - Service mesh that can issue SPIFFE identities to the services it manages.