Using SPIRE to Securely Connect Workloads: Part 8 — Configuring the Server to Use SPIRE mTLS

Now that we have SPIRE, our server application can use it to establish an mTLS connectivity.

Playlist

• Part 1: Introduction
• Part 2: Creating the Server App
• Part 3: Creating the Client App
• Part 4: Containerizing the Server App
• Part 5: Containerizing the Client App
• Part 6: Rolling out SPIRE to the Clusters
• Part 7: Registering Nodes and Workloads to SPIRE
• Part 8: Configuring the Server to Use SPIRE mTLS
• Part 9: Configuring the Client to Use SPIRE mTLS
• Part 10: Establishing Cross-Cluster mTLS

Tools and Technologies Mentioned

Here are the tools and technologies that were mentioned in the video, along with related articles and other helpful links.

• SPIRE Concepts
• MicroK8s (the Kubernetes variant that we used in these videos)
• go-spiffe: Go Library for SPIFFE Support
• Authentication and Authorization
• What’s a Service Mesh
• istio
• Open Policy Agent (OPA)
• Envoy Proxy
• Envoy Secret Discovery Service