SPIRE Use Cases

Authenticating workloads in untrusted networks using mTLS When sending messages between distributed software systems, it is common to rely on the network to determine the identity of the system that sent a message, to ensure that messages can only be received by systems that are authorized to view them, and to ensure that the message has not been seen or modified in transit by a malicious party. However, for complex distributed applications - which may span multiple networks that share many services deployed by different teams - it may be undesirable to rely on the network to protect…