Propose spiffe and spire for graduation

[anvega]

The SPIFFE and SPIRE projects were started with an ambitious vision: to automatically provide every workloads in a distributed system with an identity that is cryptographically verifiable, automatically rotated, interoperable and portable. The goal is an interoperable workload identity format (SPIFFE), and supporting tooling to issue those identities (SPIRE), that allows components in a distributed system to ensure the authenticity, integrity and confidentiality of messages passed between them.

The growth of the SPIFFE and SPIRE projects, with support from the CNCF as it moved through the Sandbox and Incubation phases, is evidenced in many dimensions ranging from maturity and robustness to improved user experience and broader reach.

We believe the projects meet the criteria for graduation and are currently looking for a TOC sponsor.

Signed-off-by: Andres Vega [email protected]

[anvega]

Note: The stylization of the project names spelled in lowercase in the PR title is intentional but solely represents my personal preference and not that of the rest of the steering committee or the project maintainers. The spelling of the project names in lowercase is not conformant with historic use nor conventional style. While we don’t have a formally documented style guide, the projects have historically been spelled in uppercase, and appear as such in all the documentation, the CNCF website, literature, etc. with the exception of the spiffe logo.

[tashimi]

+1 Super excited to see this milestone!!!

[caniszczyk]

Success: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/7334 8/11 Emily Fox: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/7335 Justin Cormack: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/7341 Richard Hartmann: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/7342 Erin Boyd: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/7344 Cathy Zhang: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/7346 Dave Zolotusky: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/7347 Ricardo Rocha: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/7348 Lei Zhang: https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-toc/message/7357