id 1.6.1
A tool for generating OIDC identities
Requires Python: >=3.9

id
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`id` is a Python tool for generating OIDC identities. It can automatically
detect and produce OIDC credentials on a number of environments, including
GitHub Actions, GitLab pipelines and Google Cloud.

## Installation

`id` requires Python 3.8 or newer, and can be installed directly via `pip`:

```console
python -m pip install id
```

## Usage

You can run `id` as a Python module via `python -m`:

```console
python -m id --help
```

Top-level:

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```
usage: id [-h] [-V] [-v] [-d] audience

a tool for generating OIDC identities

positional arguments:
  audience       the OIDC audience to use

optional arguments:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  -V, --version  show program's version number and exit
  -v, --verbose  run with additional debug logging; supply multiple times to
                 increase verbosity (default: 0)
  -d, --decode   decode the OIDC token into JSON (default: False)
```
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For Python API usage, there is a single importable function, `detect_credential`:

```pycon
>>> from id import detect_credential
>>> detect_credential(audience='something')
'<OIDC token>'
```

This function requires an `audience` parameter, which is used when generating
the OIDC token. This should be set to the intended audience for the token.

If no supported environment is found, `detect_credential` returns `None`. If a supported
environment is found but `detect_credential` fails to retrieve a token, it raises
`AmbientCredentialError`.

## Supported environments

`id` currently supports ambient credential detection in the following environments:

* [GitHub Actions](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/deployment/security-hardening-your-deployments/about-security-hardening-with-openid-connect)
* Google Cloud
  * [Cloud Run](https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/securing/service-identity)
  * [Google Kubernetes Engine](https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/workload-identity)
  * [Compute Engine](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/access/create-enable-service-accounts-for-instances)
  * and more
* [Buildkite](https://buildkite.com/docs/agent/v3/cli-oidc)
* [GitLab](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/secrets/id_token_authentication.html) (See _environment variables_ below)
* [CircleCI](https://circleci.com/docs/oidc-tokens-with-custom-claims/)

### Tokens in environment variables

GitLab provides OIDC tokens through environment variables. The variable name must be
`<AUD>_ID_TOKEN`  where `<AUD>` is the uppercased audience argument where all
characters outside of ASCII letters and digits are replaced with "\_". A leading digit
must also be replaced with a "\_".

## Licensing

`id` is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.

## Contributing

See [the contributing docs](https://github.com/di/id/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.

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