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What are GCP Workload Identity Federation and AWS IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA)?

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Edited by Rajesh Sharma · Aug 23, 2026 6:11 PM

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What are GCP Workload Identity Federation and AWS IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA)?

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Eliminating static service account JSON keys in Kubernetes and GitHub Actions.
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### Keyless Access Strategy Use OIDC identity federation to issue short-lived temporary IAM tokens to CI/CD runners and k8s pods without writing secret keys to disk.
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https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/workload-identity-federation

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Published by Rajesh Sharma · Aug 9, 2026 5:37 AM

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What are GCP Workload Identity Federation and AWS IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA)?

Original Summary
Eliminating static service account JSON keys in Kubernetes and GitHub Actions.
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### Keyless Access Strategy Use OIDC identity federation to issue short-lived temporary IAM tokens to CI/CD runners and k8s pods without writing secret keys to disk.
Original Sources

https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/workload-identity-federation