Published : Sep 27, 2023
NOT ON THE CURRENT EDITION
This blip is not on the current edition of the Radar. If it was on one of the last few editions, it is likely that it is still relevant. If the blip is older, it might no longer be relevant and our assessment might be different today. Unfortunately, we simply don't have the bandwidth to continuously review blips from previous editions of the Radar.
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Sep 2023
Trial
One of the techniques we recommend for implementing zero trust security for CI/CD is to authenticate your pipelines for cloud services access via federated identity mechanisms like OpenID Connect (OIDC). As GitHub Actions is widely used — and this important technique remains underused — we want to call out . This way you can avoid storing long-lived access tokens for your cloud resources, and your pipelines won't get direct access to secrets. However, be sure to scope access carefully .
