Kill the long-lived secret.
Your Kubernetes pods and CI pipelines already have a cryptographic identity. HelixIAM exchanges their signed JWTs for short-lived HelixIAM tokens — keyless, secretless, and bound to real roles.
Keyless by federation
Trust an external issuer's JWKS once. Workloads present their platform-issued JWT and receive a HelixIAM token — no secret to store, rotate, or leak.
- JWT → HelixIAM token exchange
- Kubernetes projected SA tokens
- GitHub Actions / GitLab CI OIDC
- RS256 verified against issuer JWKS
Bound to real roles
A federated workload isn't anonymous — bind it to an Application's service account so its minted token carries exactly the roles that workload should have.
- Bind credential to an Application
- Service-account roles in the token
- realm_access / resource_access
- Subject, audience & issuer pinning
Six ways to say no
Every claim is checked. Wrong issuer, subject, audience, or an unreachable JWKS is rejected — negative cases are tested against real clusters.
- Issuer + subject + audience match
- JWKS reachability enforced
- Expiry & signature verification
- Deny-by-default on mismatch
Managed from the console
Workload identities live next to everything else — created, viewed, and revoked in the admin console, and declarable as config-as-code.
- Console screen + admin API
- Config-as-code import/export
- Audited issuance
- Instant revocation
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