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OpenID Connect for CI/CD (OIDC)

Using short-lived OIDC tokens issued by a CI platform to authenticate to cloud providers without storing long-lived credentials.

Definition

The CI system issues a signed JWT describing the job (repo, branch, environment); the cloud provider trusts that issuer and exchanges it for temporary credentials. Called workload identity federation in Azure and Google Cloud.

Example

GitHub Actions uses aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials with role-to-assume and id-token: write permission.

Exam tip

OIDC federation is the recommended replacement for stored cloud access keys in pipelines.

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