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= Short-term authentication for workloads

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To use short-term authentication in your applications, you must configure access in your cloud provider, create an {product-title} service account, and deploy workloads that use this authentication method.

. Create a federated identity service account in the Identity and Access Management (IAM) settings for your cloud provider.

. Create an {product-title} service account that can impersonate a service account for your cloud provider.

. Configure any workloads related to your application to use the {product-title} service account.
