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A pod in a second GKE cluster can read a production bucket. How could workload identity allow that?

A cluster boundary does not always create a new cloud identity. Inspect the workload pool and principal identifier before assuming a leaked key.

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A cluster boundary does not always create a new cloud identity. Inspect the workload pool and principal identifier before assuming a leaked key.

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