Google PCA Designing for Security and Compliance Practice Question
A company deploys a Kubernetes workload in GKE that needs to access Cloud Storage. They want to avoid managing service account keys. What is the recommended approach?
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Use Workload Identity to map the Kubernetes service account to a GCP service account.
Workload Identity allows you to bind a Kubernetes service account to a GCP service account, so pods can authenticate using the GCP service account without managing keys.
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Anthos is a Google Cloud platform that lets you run applications consistently across different computing environments, like on-premises data centers and multiple public clouds.
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GKE
GKE is Google's managed Kubernetes service that automates deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications in the cloud.
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