Outcome 1
A production-style Zero Trust Kubernetes platform
Free course
Mastering SPIFFE & SPIRE: Zero Trust for Cloud Native Systems
Learn modern cloud-native identity security and become the engineer who secures production Kubernetes clusters — for free.
Outcomes
What you will be able to build and explain
Each outcome is tied to architecture, operational judgement, or a concrete deployment habit you can reuse at work.
Outcome 2
Secure workload identities with automatic rotation
Outcome 3
mTLS-encrypted services via Envoy SDS
Outcome 4
OPA-powered authorization policies
Outcome 5
Federated trust domains across clusters
Outcome 6
Production monitoring with Prometheus dashboards
Learning loop
Learn the model, practice the decision, keep the checklist
Replace secret sprawl with workload identity. The most comprehensive free course on SPIFFE and SPIRE — the CNCF standard for machine identity in cloud-native systems. Learn zero trust architecture, PKI fundamentals, Kubernetes workload identity, service mesh integration, and production operations through 30+ hands-on labs and real-world architecture patterns. Go from shared secrets and manual certificates to automatic, cryptographic workload identity.
01
Inspect the architecture
Start every module with the system model: components, trust boundaries, data flow, and the production problem it solves.
02
Practice the failure mode
Labs and exercises focus on the operational edge cases that separate tutorial knowledge from production confidence.
03
Ship with judgement
Production notes, common mistakes, and tradeoffs make the course useful when you are designing or reviewing real systems.
Good fit
Who should take this course?
This course is written for engineers who need practical production context, not abstract theory.
Platform Engineers building internal developer platforms
DevOps Engineers managing Kubernetes clusters
Security Engineers implementing zero trust
Backend Developers securing microservice communication
SREs responsible for production identity infrastructure
Cloud Architects designing multi-cluster systems
Curriculum
Full course path
13 modules, 30 hands-on labs, 40+ hours of production-focused learning.
Instructor
Vishal Anand
Senior Product Engineer & Open Source Contributor
Creator of DRF API Logger, an open-source package powering API observability across thousands of enterprise Django applications. Vishal builds production infrastructure at scale and created this course to fill the gap in practical SPIFFE/SPIRE education — teaching real deployment patterns, not just theory.
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