Secure Pod Identity Across Clouds: AKS Workload Identity, EKS IRSA, GKE Workload Identity

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Projected service account tokens bring expiration, rotation, and audience binding to Kubernetes pod auth.
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Learn how Kubernetes projected service account tokens replace legacy secret-mounted tokens with short-lived, audience-scoped JWTs—plus how AKS, EKS (IRSA), and GKE use them for workload identity.