Goodbye Service Account Keys, Hello Workload Identity Federation – Building Secure Apps with GCP

Tired of juggling a million service account keys for your cloud-based application? Want to up your security game without sacrificing the joy in your day? Look no further – Workload Identity Federation is here to save the day!

In this video, i cover the following:
What is workload identity federation (workload identity pools + IAM)?
How to set it up on GCP
Live Example: How to use it up with a GitHub actions workflow

Workload identity federation is simply Keyless authentication for service accounts. It solves the problems of storage of access keys, distribution, and rotation using short live dynamically provided tokens to authenticate your third party applications to Google cloud platform.

To learn more, read the docs: https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/wor...

Other links:
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Github open id connect setup: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/de...

Google github auth action:
https://github.com/google-github-acti...

Code samples repo used in this video:
https://github.com/galonge/udemy-kust...

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To learn more about kubernetes configuration management with Kustomize, see here: https://www.udemy.com/course/kustomiz...