spire
The SPIFFE Runtime Environment (by spiffe)
ZeroTier
A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth (by zerotier)
| spire | ZeroTier | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 345 | |
| 1,983 | 15,604 | |
| 1.5% | 0.9% | |
| 9.7 | 7.2 | |
| 4 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| Go | C++ | |
| Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
spire
Posts with mentions or reviews of spire.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-04.
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Mesh Expansion with Linkerd, AKS, and Azure Virtual Machines
wget https://github.com/spiffe/SPIRE/releases/download/v1.11.2/SPIRE-1.11.2-linux-amd64-musl.tar.gz tar zvxf SPIRE-1.11.2-linux-amd64-musl.tar.gz cp -r spire-1.11.2/. /opt/spire/
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How to automate certificate renewal with Azure Key vault?
If this seems a bit complicated, you could use SPIRE server to issue certificates and Otterize SPIRE integration operator to renew them in Kubernetes and update Secrets.
- Spire - The spiffe runtime environment
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What are the most important metrics for measuring cloud and endpoint security?
BlindSPOT: https://blindspotsec.com/ Specific graphic from BlindSPOT: https://blindspotsec.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Failure_Before.jpg How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01J4XYM16/ Monte Carlo simulation approach: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2020/red-teaming-and-monte-carlo-simulations/ D3FEND: https://d3fend.mitre.org/ ATT&CK mappings: https://github.com/center-for-threat-informed-defense/attack-control-framework-mappings ATT&CK evals: https://attackevals.mitre-engenuity.org/index.html CALDERA: https://github.com/mitre/caldera Offensive Countermeasures: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1974671690/ SPIFFE: https://spiffe.io/ SPIRE: https://github.com/spiffe/spire Zerotier: https://www.zerotier.com/ Zerotier libzt: https://github.com/zerotier/libzt
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Zero-trust networking for bare-metal systems, using Rust.
The effort to get this going seems the same or more than to get something like this rolling out. spire what do you see as the benefit of your approach.
ZeroTier
Posts with mentions or reviews of ZeroTier.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-07-03.
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The Cheapest NAS
Tailscale uses Go https://tailscale.com/security#tailscale-is-written-in-go which might explain the larger sizes.
A cursory look through https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne shows more C++ and some Rust. Not sure how much static linking is involved here.
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List of ngrok/Cloudflare Tunnel alternatives and other tunneling software and services. Focus on self-hosting.
ZeroTier - Layer 2 overlay network. They take decentralization seriously, and like to say "decentralize until it hurts, then centralize until it works." Written in C++.
- Compiling zerotier-cli on Linux Mint 21
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Is there a way to bind ZeroTier with the Android Blue Iris app?
EDIT - I'm tired and cross-eyed after a bunch of internet searching and rabbit holes... A supposed ZeroTier dev said on April 25, 2023 that this would be addressed in a future release of the app in this thread: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/issues/1952. On August 10th, another engineer said that they are waiting for a car to be delivered.
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ZeroTier-GTK development help
Solution 2: Wait for support from Zerotier-One with DBUS
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Gravitational Teleport alternatives - netbird, ZeroTier, and awl
4 projects | 29 Jun 2023
A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth
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Self-Hosted Mesh Network / VPN For User-Friendly LAN Gaming Network?
https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne (11.5k stars)
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Setup a Local Wifi Lan
If you just want to connect between your devices, you don't need any hardware. Just install zerotier on them.
- VPN options for businesses (AzureAD, IdP, etc)
- [Self Hosted] Je suis sans voix pour des services comme TailScale, quel est l'inconvénient?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing spire and ZeroTier you can also consider the following projects:
spiffe-vault - Integrates Spiffe and Vault to have secretless authentication
playit-minecraft-plugin - A Minecraft plugin to make your server public without port forwarding using playit.gg
cosign - Code signing and transparency for containers and binaries
tailscale - The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.
in-toto-golang - A Go implementation of in-toto. in-toto is a framework to protect software supply chain integrity.
netbird - Connect your devices into a secure WireGuard®-based overlay network with SSO, MFA and granular access controls.