// Module included in the following assemblies:
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// * authentication/managing_cloud_provider_credentials/cco-short-term-creds.adoc

:_mod-docs-content-type: CONCEPT
[id="cco-short-term-creds-workloads_{context}"]
= Application support for {cloud-auth-short} service account tokens

[role="_abstract"]
You can use {cloud-auth-short} authentication with applications in customer workloads on {product-title} clusters that use {cloud-auth-first}.

To use this authentication method with your applications, you must complete configuration steps on the cloud provider console and your {product-title} cluster.

// Unsetting attributes defined in authentication/managing_cloud_provider_credentials/cco-short-term-creds.adoc above include:: line
:!context:
:!cloud-auth-first:
:!cloud-auth-full:
:!cloud-auth-short:
