# SPIRE Workload API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/spire/spire-workload-api/  
**Provider:** SPIRE — https://apis.io/providers/spire/  
**Documentation:** https://spiffe.io/docs/latest/spire-about/spire-concepts/

SPIRE Workload API is one of 5 APIs that [SPIRE](https://apis.io/providers/spire/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by an AsyncAPI event-driven specification. Tagged areas include gRPC, Identity, JWT, Workload, and X.509. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, an AsyncAPI specification, and a GitHub repository.

The SPIRE Agent exposes the SPIFFE Workload API as a Unix domain socket, allowing workloads running on the same node to request their X.509-SVIDs and JWT-SVIDs without requiring any credentials. The Workload API also delivers trust bundle updates so that workloads can verify the identity of other workloads.

## Machine-readable artifacts (6)

- **Documentation** — https://spiffe.io/docs/latest/spire-about/spire-concepts/
- **Reference** — https://github.com/spiffe/spiffe/blob/main/standards/SPIFFE_Workload_API.md
- **AsyncAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spire/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/spire-workload-asyncapi.yml
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/spiffe/spire
- **GraphQL** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spire/refs/heads/main/graphql/spire-graphql.md
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spire/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other SPIRE APIs (4)

- [SPIRE Server API](https://apis.io/apis/spire/spire-server-api/)
- [SPIRE Discovery API](https://apis.io/apis/spire/spire-discovery-api/)
- [SPIRE Health API](https://apis.io/apis/spire/spire-health-api/)
- [SPIRE Keys API](https://apis.io/apis/spire/spire-keys-api/)

## Tags

gRPC, Identity, JWT, Workload, X.509

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