Scytale Blog SPIFFE and SPIRE at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019

SPIFFE and SPIRE at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019Inspired by production infrastructure at Facebook, Google, Netflix and others the SPIFFE and SPIRE projects define a new standard for workload identity and authentication for cloud- and container-deployed microservices.Kubecon EU 2019 is our biggest KubeCon yet! Less than two years after we launched the SPIFFE and SPIRE projects at KubeCon NA 2017 in Austin we have six fantastic talks covering all aspects of the project.Speakers from Google, Tigera, and Scytale are covering open source best practices and integrations with projects like Envoy, Istio, Calico and Kubernetes, and security engineers from Uber giving a detailed case study of how they are using SPIRE in production.If you’re building your schedule, here are the talks not to miss!Key SPIFFE and SPIRE Sessions:Tuesday, May 21Intro: SPIFFE (11:55am–12:30pm)Emiliano Bernbaum & Scott Emmons (Scytale)New to SPIFFE/SPIRE? This session provides an introduction to the projects and the progress made over the past few months.Istio New Workload Identity Provision Pipeline Based on Envoy SDS (11:55am–12:30pm)Quanjie Lin & Diem Vu (Google)See how Istio’s new workload identity provision system leverages SPIFFE.Wednesday, May 22Zero Trust Service Mesh with Calico, SPIRE, and Envoy (11:05am–11:40am)Shaun Crampton (Tigera) & Evan Gilman (Scytale)Explore how to build a truly secure zero-trust service mesh with Layer 4 through 7 network policy enforcement using SPIRE and Calico.Deep Dive: SPIFFE (2:50pm–3:25pm)Emiliano Bernbaum & Scott Emmons (Scytale)Learn best practices, suggestions, and recommendations on deploying and configuring SPIRE including in Kubernetes. For more details click hereThursday, May 23Securing Multi-Cloud Cross-Cluster Communication with SPIFFE and SPIRE (2:00pm–2:35pm)Evan Gilman (Scytale)Learn how to leverage SPIRE to automate the issuance of SPIFFE identity across disparate orchestrators and platforms, allowing for seamless authentication of systems within and between them.Uber x Security: Why and How We Built Our Workload Identity Platform (4:45pm–5:20pm)Tyler Julian (Uber) & Daniel Feldman (Scytale)Explore what led Uber to build out an automated, API-driven, cloud native approach to workload identity with SPIRE.Want to meet SPIFFE experts in person? Reach out to Evan (@evan2645), Dan (@d_feldman) or Andres (@invariantly), and find us on https://slack.spiffe.io/.SPIFFE and SPIRE at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 was originally published in Scytale.io on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.