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    PracticeGCP Professional Cloud ArchitectGCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Exam 2Question 26
    Medium1 markMultiple Choice
    Domain 2: Managing and Provisioning a Solution InfrastructureGKESecurityIAM

    GCP PCA · Question 26 · Domain 2: Managing and Provisioning a Solution Infrastructure

    A pod running in GKE needs to access a Cloud Storage bucket. You want to follow the principle of least privilege and avoid managing service account keys manually. What is the recommended approach?

    Answer options:

    A.

    Export a JSON key and store it in a Kubernetes Secret.

    B.

    Assign the required IAM role to the GKE Node's underlying Compute Engine service account.

    C.

    Use Workload Identity to bind a Kubernetes Service Account to a Google Service Account.

    D.

    Make the Cloud Storage bucket public.

    How to approach this question

    Identify the modern way to grant GCP permissions to GKE pods.

    Full Answer

    C.Use Workload Identity to bind a Kubernetes Service Account to a Google Service Account.✓ Correct
    Use Workload Identity to bind a Kubernetes Service Account to a Google Service Account.
    Workload Identity is the recommended way to access Google Cloud services from applications running within GKE, allowing pod-level granularity without managing JSON keys.

    Common mistakes

    Using the node service account, which grants permissions to all pods on that node.
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