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Article: Eliminating Long-Lived Credentials in GCP with Workload Identity Federation
Long-lived GCP service account keys are secrets that must be managed forever, are hard to rotate, and are easy to leak. Scaling Workload Identity Federation to 120+ production projects shows why it changes how machine identity is approached entirely: keys are secrets to manage, federated identities are trust relationships configured once, gated by attribute conditions.
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#GCP
#Workload Identity Federation
#Service Account Keys
#Long-Lived Credentials
#Machine Identity
#Federated Identities
#Secrets Management
#Attribute Conditions
#Trust Relationships
#Production Projects
#Scaling
#Rotation
#Security
#Leakage
#Cloud Security
#IAM
#Authentication
#Authorization
#Configuration
#Identity