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Best Current Practice for Workload Identity
draft-hofmann-wimse-workload-identity-bcp-00

Document Type Replaced Internet-Draft (individual)
Expired & archived
Authors Benedikt Hofmann , Hannes Tschofenig
Last updated 2024-04-05 (Latest revision 2023-10-10)
Replaced by draft-ietf-wimse-workload-identity-bcp
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Abstract

The use of the OAuth 2.0 framework for container orchestration systems poses a challenge as managing secrets, such as client_id and client_secret, can be complex and error-prone. "Service account token volume projection", a term introduced by Kubernetes, provides a way of injecting JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) to workloads. This document specifies the use of JWTs for client credentials in container orchestration systems to improve interoperability in orchestration systems, to reduce complexity for developers, and motivates authorization server to support RFC 7523.

Authors

Benedikt Hofmann
Hannes Tschofenig

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