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

:_mod-docs-content-type: CONCEPT
[id="cco-short-term-creds-gcp-entra_{context}"]
= About {entra-first}

[role="_abstract"]
When you configure your cluster to use manual mode with {entra-first}, the individual {product-title} cluster components use the {entra-short} provider to assign to components short-term security credentials. 
