October 14, 2026 · Google CloudFeature
VPC Service Controls supports Workload Identity Federation for GKE in rules, in Preview
VPC Service Controls feature (Status: Preview): Support for using Workload Identity Federation for GKE in ingress and egress rules to allow access to resources protected by a service perimeter is available in Preview.
You can specify the following Workload Identity Federation for GKE principals in ingress and egress rules:
- All GKE Pods that use a Kubernetes service account (by service account name or ID)
- All GKE Pods in a Kubernetes namespace
- All GKE Pods in a cluster
For more information, see Configure identity groups and third-party identities in ingress and egress rules and Supported identities for ingress and egress rules.
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