Using Workload Identity to Handle Keys in Google Kubernetes Engine

Written by debricked | Published 2020/02/18
Tech Story Tags: backend | cybersecurity | security | cloud | tutorial | kubernetes | good-company | containers

TLDR Workload identity is a modern way to provision keys for pods running on Google Kubernetes Engine. It allows individual pods to use a service account with a suitable set of permissions without manually managing KuberNETes secrets. In this article, we show a real world example on how to use Workload Identity to configure a KuberNetes cluster with Workload ID enabled. In the figure below, we see an overview of what is achieved by this method, where each individual pod can use a dedicated service account.via the TL;DR App

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