Article: Eliminating Long-Lived Credentials in GCP with Workload Identity Federation

August 31, 2026 · 11:00 am 1 sources

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• Article: Eliminating Long-Lived Credentials in GCP with Workload Identity Federation
  InfoQ · August 31, 2026 11:00
  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…