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How does OIDC keyless authentication improve CI/CD security?

GitHub Actions generates a short-lived JWT token per workflow run that cloud providers exchange for temporary credentials scoped to that run. No long-lived access keys are stored in secrets, eliminating persistent credentials that can be leaked or misused after the pipeline is decommissioned.

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