A little over 10 years ago I wrote the design doc for
#SPIFFE. 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 and did
Heptio instead. I handed it off to
Sunil James who started a company and got it into the CNCF. They also wrote the companion reference implementation called SPIRE.
This just goes to show I suck at timing. 😂 It is having a moment now. It only took 10 years for the need for workload identity to be obvious with the advent of agents.
To mark this I want to get some of the original artifacts out there for anyone that is interested.
Original design doc:
https://lnkd.in/gFEwM7WC
Original presentation at GlueCon:
https://lnkd.in/gN7M7Vhy
Easter egg: the colors in the original logo were based on my last name. Fun you can have when your name can be represented as hex.
#00BEDA and
#BEDA00. Those colors (or very similar) are still used in the logo!
Huge thank you to all the people that took my silly paper and ran with it.
For future reference I put this up on a blog post on my new personal blog:
https://lnkd.in/gdDhXQSb
SPIFFE: Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone
SPIFFE: Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone