InfoQ - Cloud - Articles https://www.infoq.com InfoQ Cloud Articles feed Article: Eliminating Long-Lived Credentials in GCP with Workload Identity Federation https://www.infoq.com/articles/gcp-wif-scale/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Cloud-articles <img src="https://res.infoq.com/articles/gcp-wif-scale/en/headerimage/gcp-wif-scale-header-1787838950646.jpg"/><p>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 identities are trust relationships configured once, gated by attribute conditions.</p> <i>By Shijin Nair</i> Google Cloud Cloud Cloud Security DevSecOps Authentication DevOps Architecture & Design article Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/articles/gcp-wif-scale/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Cloud-articles Shijin Nair 2026-08-31T11:00:00Z /articles/gcp-wif-scale/en