Things Every Developer Should Know: CI/CD Pipelines. CI/CD pipelines automate the path from code change to production. A typical pipeline connects: → Source control → Automated testing → Artifact creation → Security scanning → Deployment The goal is simple: catch problems earlier and make releases repeatable. But automating deployment creates another problem: the pipeline still needs permission to access your infrastructure. It may need to push a container image, deploy to Kubernetes, access a database, or modify cloud resources. One option is to give the pipeline a long-lived credential. But that means another secret to store, rotate, and protect. Workload identity takes a different approach. Instead of storing a permanent secret, the workload proves its identity and receives short-lived access when it needs it. Teleport’s Machine & Workload Identity applies this model to CI/CD jobs, AI agents, and other automated workloads accessing infrastructure. CI/CD controls how code moves through the deployment process. Workload identity controls what that automation is allowed to access. 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 → lucode.co/machine-workload-i… What else would you add? —— ♻️ Repost to help others learn system design. 🙏 Thanks to @goteleport for sponsoring this post. ➕ Follow me ( Nikki Siapno ) to improve at system design.