OIDC for external feeds

[grace-rehn]

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OIDC authentication for external feeds, particularly AWS Elastic, Azure and Google container registry feeds. This allows customers to set up their external feeds without static credentials avoiding secret rotation.

In this blog post, I walk through why OIDC authentication is useful and give a brief summary of how to set up each feed type. I have not gone into too much detail in each section and have linked the docs for more information.

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2025.2

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[wlthomson]

Awesome 🎉 !

A couple of really small improvements, mainly because I couldn't find anything significant to fault 😆 .

Reads really nicely and tells a strong story. Nice job!