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• The third risk in PKI is trust, and it is important to mitigate it to ensure the certificate is not useless
• Trust manager is a tool that can help in this situation, but a plan is still needed for trusting certificates
• Issuance and policy are important to prevent unauthorized requests and ensure the safety of the PKI
• Private PKI offers advantages such as cost-effectiveness and total control over certificate issuance
• Certificates are important for encryption in transit and protecting data from attackers

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• SPIFFE is an open-source framework that defines a standard for defining a workload or machine identity.
• SPIFFE can issue SVIDs in two document formats, JWT and x509, and can verify SVIDs of other workloads.
• SPIFFE has an emerging ecosystem of plugins to integrate with other tools and services.
• CSI Driver SPIFFE can be used with Cert Manager to deliver certificates to pods that are SPIFFE-compliant and attested by workload identity.
• CSI is the way that any kind of storage works in Kubernetes.

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• Cert Manager is an open-source project that automates the management and issuance of TLS certificates in Kubernetes clusters
• It is designed with a focus on security and extensibility
• Cert Manager supports multiple certificate issuers, including Let's Encrypt and private PKIs
• It is highly automated and can be used with a simple annotation on Ingress resources
• The project is actively maintained and welcomes community contributions

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• Workloads are moving from data centers to the edge, and Kubernetes has been adopted to run these workloads.
• The challenge is to secure these workloads and manage certificates and renewals at scale.
• Cert-manager and SPIFFE can be used to manage security at the edge and distribute trust.
• The talk demonstrates how to provision and renew certificates for both ingress and mTLS use cases using cert-manager on a Raspberry Pi.

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• The use of standardized identities, such as SPIFFE, can improve security and simplify the process of moving from on-prem and hybrid environments to clouds.
• The presentation demonstrates a toy example of a workload agency using a SPIFFE connector server to issue short-lived cloud credentials to workloads.
• The SPIFFE connector server is configured with an ACL to control which workloads can access which credentials.
• The presentation includes a live demo of the toy example, showing the deployment of the SPIFFE connector server and an example workload with a sidecar.
• The demo illustrates how the SPIFFE connector server issues short-lived credentials to the workload, which can then be used to access cloud APIs.
• The use of standardized identities can improve security by allowing for better auditing and control over which workloads have access to which credentials.

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• Prow ensures a consistent experience across repositories in an organization
• Chat ops based interaction makes it easy to use for non-experts
• Prow is new contributor friendly
• Guide on how to set up Prow for use in open source projects