Workload Identity Federation: The School Trip Analogy You’ll Remember

Secrets in repos, API keys in scripts, and forgotten credentials create massive security gaps. Workload Identity Federation (WIF) solves this with short-lived tokens and trust-based authentication across clouds.

To explain it clearly, I’ve put together a 2-minute video that uses a school trip analogy (students, teachers, and wristbands) to break it down step by step.

Video: https://youtu.be/UZa5LWndb8k

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