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PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT · Question #366
You are designing a central, automated infrastructure deployment process for your organization using Terraform and Cloud Build. The security team prohibits the use of long-lived, static service accoun
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Submitted by tarun92· Mar 30, 2026Designing for security and compliance
Question
You are designing a central, automated infrastructure deployment process for your organization using Terraform and Cloud Build. The security team prohibits the use of long-lived, static service account keys in any CI/CD pipeline. Additionally, while developers can propose infrastructure changes for peer review, they must not have permissions to directly apply changes in the production project. You need to design a secure and automated workflow for applying Terraform changes that meets the security team's requirements and ensures proper governance. What should you do?
Options
- AConfigure the Cloud Build pipeline to use service account impersonation. Set up a trigger that
- BUse service account impersonation in Cloud Build. Configure the pipeline to run terraform plan on
- CConfigure the pipeline to only run terraform plan. After a pull request is approved, have an
- DCreate a privileged service account and store its JSON key in Secret Manager. Configure the
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#Terraform#Cloud Build#service account impersonation#IaC governance