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Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer Associate Cloud Engineer · Domain 4: Configuring access and security

Workload Identity Federation for GKE and for workloads outside Google Cloud

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Workloads need identities too, and the goal is to give each one its own short-lived Google credentials without keys. Google Cloud offers two related features, both called Workload Identity Federation, one for GKE pods and one for workloads running elsewhere.

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