Tetrate Launches Open Source 'Authservice' in Collaboration with the US Air Force Platform One Team to Simplify Cloud-Native Authentication
SAN FRANCISCO, April 17, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Tetrate, the company bringing Istio and Envoy to the enterprise, in partnership with the United States Air Force (USAF) Platform One team, has launched Authservice, an open source project that sets a new standard in cloud-native authentication and compliance. With OpenID Connect (OIDC) integration and seamless Kubernetes support, Authservice allows developers to protect APIs and web apps without application code.
- Authservice offers scalability and operational simplicity in cloud environments as a drop-in replacement for the existing Istio authservice.
- Authservice uses Istio mesh sidecars and Kubernetes secrets to provide dynamic, automated support for authentication.
- "Authservice is a groundbreaking advancement in cloud-native security, and we're delighted to make it available as an open source project," said Branden Wood, federal director at Tetrate.
- Platform One is a cloud-based software development platform used by the USAF to build secure and compliant software applications.