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gke-workload-identity
Configures and diagnoses Workload Identity Federation for GKE authentication failures for Pods (403 "iam.serviceAccounts.getAccessToken" / permission denied, "could not find default credentials", or GKE metadata server unreachable) by verifying cluster and node-pool Workload Identity configuration, the Kubernetes ServiceAccount (KSA) to IAM binding (direct principal binding and legacy Google ServiceAccount impersonation), target-resource IAM roles, and gke-metadata-server health. Use when setting up KSA/GSA bindings (`roles/iam.workloadIdentityUser`, `iam.gke.io/gcp-service-account`) or when a Pod cannot authenticate to Google Cloud APIs. Don't use for in-cluster Kubernetes RBAC errors (API-server authorization), general workload crashes (use gke-workload-troubleshooting), or Pod Security Standards and NetworkPolicies (use gke-workload-security).
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# GKE Workload Identity Federation Troubleshooting Skill
Use this skill to systematically diagnose why a Pod using **Workload Identity
Federation for GKE** cannot authenticate to Google Cloud APIs. Typical symptoms:
- `HTTP/403 ... Permission 'iam.serviceAccounts.getAccessToken' denied on
resource`
- `google.auth.exceptions ... could not find default credentials` /
`ComputeEngineCredentials cannot find the metadata server`
- API calls that unexpectedly use the node's default Compute Engine service
account instead of the workload's identity.
## Attribution