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Security hardening your deployments

Use OpenID Connect within your workflows to authenticate with your cloud provider.

About security hardening with OpenID Connect

OpenID Connect allows your workflows to exchange short-lived tokens directly from your cloud provider.

Use OpenID Connect within your workflows to authenticate with Amazon Web Services.

Use OpenID Connect within your workflows to authenticate with Azure.

Use OpenID Connect within your workflows to authenticate with Google Cloud Platform.

Use OpenID Connect within your workflows to authenticate with HashiCorp Vault.

Use OpenID Connect within your workflows to authenticate with cloud providers.

You can use reusable workflows with OIDC to standardize and security harden your deployment steps.