Company
Date Published
Author
Aurora Chun
Word count
433
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Terraform Cloud has introduced dynamic provider credentials for Kubernetes via Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), enabling automated authentication with just-in-time credentials, reducing the risk of exposure from storing long-lived static credentials and eliminating operational burdens of manual secret rotation. This enhancement supports industry-standard OpenID Connect workload identity authentication flow, simplifying Terraform Cloud setup and ensuring secure authentication across cloud environments. With this update, users can authenticate Kubernetes clusters on AWS and Google Cloud without relying on long-lived static credentials, mitigating security risks and streamlining their workflows.