AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog
Author: Joe Randazzo
Setting Up OpenID Connect with GitLab CI/CD to Provide Secure Access to Environments in AWS Accounts
When building out a CI/CD pipeline, there are ways to proactively harden your pipelines when they need to access environments in AWS accounts. Given that your pipeline will have create and destroy access to critical components of your AWS-based environments, it’s important to evaluate how GitLab Runner authenticates and authorizes for access to your AWS accounts. Learn how the new OpenID Connect (OIDC) for GitLab CI/CD jobs can help you access AWS services using GitLab.