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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)

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!

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.