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Manage access for machine identities

You can manage the access of machine identities using the access controls described below.

Note

See the Quickstart for how to integrate your workload with MIM services.

Tag

A Tag is an arbitrary string with no metadata nor ID, used to manage access to secrets. Entities are assigned tags in a one-to-many association. I.e. a single Ticket/Secret/Workload is associated with several Tags. Each entity is associated with at least one Tag. A Workload can retrieve a Secret’s value only if the Client is associated with every Tag the Secret is associated with.

Role

A Role is a system-assigned permission for the ticket. For example, this is used to determine whether the ticket can be used to register a client as a Ticket Factory (which can issue tickets to enroll new clients ad-hoc). This role is assigned by selecting the Orchestrator role.

Network Access Ranges

In order to access / utilize an entity, a Workload must authenticate with an IP address that matches at least one of the Network Access Ranges associated with the entity.

Expiry Date

An entity cannot be used/accessed past its expiration date.

Status

One of Active/Deactivated/Expired. Entities are created as “Active” by default, yet its activation status can at any point be manually changed. Deactivated entities cannot be used/accessed until they are reactivated.

Workload TTL

For a Ticket, this defines an upper limit for the amount of time between a Workload authentication with this Ticket until it expires.