As more development teams adopt continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices, integrating GitHub Actions with AWS has become increasingly common. However, traditional API key authentication poses significant security risks, including key leakage and management complexity. To address these issues, OpenID Connect (OIDC) offers a more secure and streamlined alternative. This podcast will explore the benefits of OIDC and provide a step-by-step tutorial on implementing OIDC in Terraform to securely connect GitHub Actions with AWS.
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