InSPIREing Progress: How We're Growing SPIFFE and SPIRE in 2023 and Beyond

This talk from CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 discusses the progress and future of SPIFFE and SPIRE, CNCF projects focused on workload identity and secure credential management. The speakers highlight key achievements from the past year, including Windows support, SIGSTORE integration, improved hardware security, and graduation from CNCF incubation. They also delve into the motivations behind SPIFFE/SPIRE, tracing their origins and explaining how they enable zero-trust architectures by providing automated, cryptographically verifiable identities for software components. The presentation covers new features like TPM integration and Istio integration, aiming to enhance security and streamline operations.