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I wrote a post about the SPIFFE standard and its accompanying open-source implementation SPIRE. www.spletzer.com/2025/03/zero... (Image courtesy of ChatGPT)

Ryan Spletzer

@ryan.spletzer.com

Creating secrets that can rotate other secrets can often feel like a "turtles all the way down" situation... But it doesn't have to be that way!

27/3/25, 1:03 am0 reposts0 likes

Ryan Spletzer

@ryan.spletzer.com

27 Mar 2025

SPIFFE/SPIRE give us a novel way to derive trust and authentication from the environment itself, which opens up a new world of possibilities and solves several classic problems related to secrets management at scale.

Ryan Spletzer

@ryan.spletzer.com

27 Mar 2025

Much like the OAuth/OpenID Connect/JWT specs from the past, digesting these types of specifications can be a lot, which is why I took a stab at digesting this myself and distilling it into a blog post for all of you to enjoy.