Identity reflection for federated workloads

You can use Certificate Authority Service with workload identity pools and identity reflection to federate a third-party identity and obtain a certificate that attests to this identity.

Identity reflection is a special certificate issuance mode that limits an unprivileged certificate requester to requesting certificates with a subject alternative name (SAN) corresponding to the identity in their credential. For example, an Cloud Service Mesh workload with a federated third-party identity token might be able to request a certificate with a SAN corresponding to its Mesh identity, but cannot request a certificate with any other SAN.

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Last updated 2026年08月26日 UTC.