![]() Spin-offs from the book and conference presentations It represents the foundation for security, the trust and support for all the other turtles. Depicted on the book cover is Zero the Turtle. Finding the bottom turtle, the solid foundation on which all other security rests, is the goal of SPIFFE and SPIRE. When the philosopher asked her what the turtle then rested on, she said: “It’s turtles all the way down!”. The title of the book ‘Solving the Bottom Turtle’ refers to an anecdote: A woman interrupted a philosopher’s lecture to tell him the world rested on a turtle’s back. The book closes with case studies from practitioners from Uber, Pinterest, ByteDance, Anthem and Square. The Book Sprint united the team of experts to provide a deep understanding of the identity problem and how to solve it. With SPIFFE/SPIRE, developers and operators can build software using new infrastructure technologies, while allowing security teams to step back from time-consuming security processes. And this is where SPIFFE and SPIRE come in. Security models for the organizations that manage them must keep up with these infrastructure technologies. ![]() Since software and application architectures have grown substantially, they are spread across virtual machines in public clouds and private data centers. They provide a uniform identity control plane across modern and heterogeneous infrastructure. The resulting book presents the SPIFFE standard for service identity and its reference implementation SPIRE. The bottom turtle solvers! From bottom center, clockwise: Emily Fox at CNCF SIG-Security, Ian Haken at Netflix, Brandon Lum at IBM, Frederick Kautz at Doc.ai/Anthem, Andrés Vega at VMWare, Eli Nesterov at ByteDance/TikTok, Daniel Feldman at HPE, Augustín Martínez Fayó at HPE, Max Lambrecht at HPE, Umair Khan at HPE, Michael Wardrop at Cohesity, and Evan Gilman at VMWare. In real time, ready to be published immediately. Facilitator Barbara Rühling led the workflow, while the Book Sprints production team copy-edited, illustrated and designed the content. There, they combined their knowledge to create a comprehensive, yet reader-friendly book. This group locked themselves up in a virtual room for long hours. ![]() ![]() The sprint brought together committed experts from HPE, VMWare, Netflix, Doc.ai/Anthem, IBM, Cohesity, ByteDance, TikTok and CNCF SIG-Security. Hewlett Packard Enterprises (HPE) initiated and sponsored the Book Sprint as a contribution to the open source community. The SPIFFE/SPIRE project is open source and part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). How the SPIFFE/SPIRE Book Sprint happened It is the latest of a series of virtual Book Sprints for technical books, after a recent book with Cisco and two books with Red Hat. Guided by the facilitation of Book Sprints Ltd, a team of experts collaboratively conceptualized, wrote and revised the 200-page book. It was written in 10 days during a virtual Book Sprint in September and October. The SPIFFE/SPIRE book is now available online and being printed. We celebrate “Solving the Bottom Turtle: a SPIFFE Way to Establish Trust in Your Infrastructure via Universal Identity”.
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