SPIRE · Capability
SPIRE Workload Identity
Unified SPIRE capability for workload identity verification and health monitoring. Combines the SPIRE health check and OIDC discovery APIs to support operators managing SPIRE deployments — verifying component readiness, retrieving OIDC configuration, and inspecting JWT signing keys for federation and token validation.
What You Can Do
GET
Get liveness
— Check if the SPIRE component process is alive.
/v1/health/live
GET
Get readiness
— Check if the SPIRE component is ready to serve requests.
/v1/health/ready
GET
Get openid configuration
— Retrieve the OIDC provider configuration document.
/v1/oidc/discovery
GET
Get jwks
— Retrieve public keys used to verify JWT-SVIDs.
/v1/oidc/keys
MCP Tools
check-spire-liveness
Check if the SPIRE component process is alive and running.
read-only
idempotent
check-spire-readiness
Check if the SPIRE component is ready to serve identity requests.
read-only
idempotent
get-oidc-configuration
Retrieve the OIDC discovery document describing SPIRE's identity provider configuration for JWT-SVID validation.
read-only
idempotent
get-jwt-signing-keys
Retrieve the JSON Web Key Set containing public keys for verifying JWT-SVIDs issued by SPIRE.
read-only
idempotent