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After review, we think that the requirement is valid. We plan to provide a solution for use of WIF to access GCP from CDC. We will provide more updates as work progresses.
Thanks for the feedback!
Yes, WIF will have a permanent access token, which GCP team will provide us and it will never expires. But it has to refresh every 15-30 mins to keep active the communication channel as the token will active for ~60 mins. In CDC tool it should be enabled to use WIF feature to communicate to GCP BQ.
In the other hand Service account json key has expire period of 90 days, because of this they advised to use WIF to avoid any sudden failure in our replication process. Yes, they prior notice features, but even we have to bring our CDC services down to implement the new json key which will stop the replication process.
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From our research, it looks like Workload Identity Federation(WIF) also needs an expiring access token. Can a permanent access token be made? IF yes, how?
As a suggested workaround, can the Service Account json key expiry be planned for to avoid a sudden replication failure e.g. by periodically updating the key?